Only just thought of this theory 7 months after having dd . It's prob just one of those things and I know loads of people have failed inductions.
I was incredibly scared of being in labour - to the point where I could barely read the chapters in my pg book on labour and if I did I was in floods of tears. I detached myself from the whole thought that I'd have to go through it and in the back of my mind had a feeling I would end out having a csection for some reason. People talk about in the last few weeks of pg being so uncomfy they are desperate to get the baby out so they don't care about the thought of the pain. Not me, I was desperate to not be pg as I felt so sick all the time but I didn't seem to have the same desperate to go into labour as other people do (until I knew I was being induced, then I just wanted to go into labour so I coudl do it naturally and not be induced).
So I went through a 5 day induction process - they did the pessaries but my body never did enough to even attempt breaking my waters. On the 5th day I was told I needed a csection as they could do no more induction wise.
The whole time in the hospital at the back of my mind I was hoping it didn't work. I was just thinking this morning do you think my body somehow stopped itself because of my fear? This sounds quite far fetched but the logic comes from the fact that I'm a have emetophobia and reading up on it apparently people with this stop themselves being sick and are sick alot more than nonemets as their body fights the urge so strongly.
Obv I know that loads of people are birth phobic and go into labour so there is a lack of detail in my thoughts, but would be interesting if anyone thinks I might have something here.
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Hindsight - could being obsessively scared of birth made my body refuse to go into labour?
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ReastieHorrorShow · 09/10/2011 08:44
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