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Two sweeps and still nothing

208 replies

Mosschops30 · 05/01/2005 15:39

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Spacecadet · 13/01/2005 22:18

maybe thats what happened with my ds of sorts!! the dictor said c-section and he thought no way!! im coming out of my own accord!!

pupuce · 13/01/2005 21:53

In that scenario.... she'd be home by now!
A colleague doula had a client like that.... 2 bags of syntocynon and NO contraction at all, she was queuing for theater..... and got a bit of chat from her doula (a bit like: why don't you want this baby to be born?).... contractions FINALLY started... baby born 1 hour later !!!

Spacecadet · 13/01/2005 21:46

My first induction( with ds1) didnt work I was taken up at lunchtime monday and I still hadnt gone into labour by tuesday evening, the consultant came to see me and said sorry your cervix hasnt even softened so I was booked for c-section in the morning, however just half an hour after he walked away, my waters broke and ds was born two and a half hours later!!!

pupuce · 13/01/2005 21:40

I don't know but someone induced on Monday morning (even if prostin didn't work at 1st go) should really have had her baby by Tuesday evening latest.... so either
it ended in section
it ended with complication and either mum or baby needs extra care
she has totally got amnesia and forgot about Mumsnet

Feel number 1 is likely.... I have known women who didn't succeed inductions (short cords,...) babies got very distressed and had sections.... sometimes when several sweeps lead to nothing... then maybe the induction would not work either as something was amiss.... and section was inevitable.

I guess we have to wait !

Spacecadet · 13/01/2005 21:30

Maybe she opted to stay longer, when I had dd2 I chose to stay in 2 nights as I didnt fancy going home to 3 kids and housework!!!!!Every time the midwives walked past my bed, they would say, "oh yes this lady has had baby number FOUR!! AND IS STAYING ANOTHER NIGHT!!!!! as if to say GO HOME!! YOU MALINGERER!!!!!

Frizbe · 13/01/2005 18:13

does anyone know?

mears · 13/01/2005 15:05

hmmm....

Frizbe · 13/01/2005 14:37

do you know anything we don't pupuce?

pupuce · 12/01/2005 17:40

....hmmmm......

gish · 12/01/2005 17:14

hope all is well and she is just babymooning!

Frizbe · 12/01/2005 17:02

ooooooo still no news?

Frizbe · 11/01/2005 23:20

could be she's decided to stay in! I know a few people who have opted for that for a few days rather than come home (me personally was straight out the door again, I'd gone off the delivery suite if they let me! but they insisted I get in the wheelchair, take the baby, which hubby was cooing over, not carry the bags and go to the ward...)

pupuce · 11/01/2005 23:08

mears.... we'll see.....

mears · 11/01/2005 23:06

Could be that she needed more than one dose of prostin. It is not uncommon to go in for induction and find the gel doesn't work first dose. Doses are repeated usually a minimum of 6 hours apart. Sometimes after 2 doses they wait another day and start again.

JanH · 11/01/2005 22:59

oooooh, good luck, mosschops - hope the babe has arrived by now!

pupuce · 11/01/2005 22:58

Well I think if we haven't heard by now it may well be a caesarean (longer stay in hospital)....... unless Mosschops is so happy that she has forgotten all about Mumsnet!

Frizbe · 11/01/2005 22:56

oooh still no news!

Frizbe · 11/01/2005 09:32

oh no news is good news!

catsnkids · 10/01/2005 22:37

just clicked on to see if there was any news. I had a sweep today am due on sat but booked in to be induced on20th Jan.I always had ovaltine can't stand the stuff usually and only ever drink it after i have delivered and on the ward at night as a bedtime drink.

Frizbe · 10/01/2005 22:34

she's probably on Tea n Toast by now!

marthamoo · 10/01/2005 19:06

The waiting is agonising - feel like I should be pacing a hospital corridor with a cigar.

Frizbe · 10/01/2005 19:04

fingers crossed all has gone well and bump has popped out in 1hr flat (in the land of dream labours!)

marthamoo · 10/01/2005 13:51

Ooh - wonder how she's doing now?

Frizbe · 10/01/2005 08:16

Good Luck!

Spacecadet · 09/01/2005 20:19

you may even find that you have dilated a couple of centimetres when you arrive tomorrow, with ds2 I had when I arrived for induction, I remember the midwife telling me that she could touch his head when she inserted the gel!

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