Does anyone know the percentage of inductions that end in instrumental delivery/EMCS?

[AngeloMysterioso]

I’m 40+3 today and have been told if I get to 40+10 I’ll “have” to be induced (I have GD). From what I can gather a large percentage of inductions seem to end in an instrumental delivery and/or EMCS- it’s certainly gone that way for literally everyone I know who’s been induced, which isn’t a small number- so if it’s going to come to that I would rather schedule an ELCS and save myself the potential pain/physical damage/MH issues (I have a preternaturally visceral fear of instrumental delivery) and if I go into natural labour before that, great!

I know there’s a whole week to go yet and baby could show up any time, and I know that natural labour could still end in c section, but my mental health is hanging by a very thin thread currently as it is, and I don’t want to spend the next week terrified that my worst fears about childbirth are more likely to come true with every passing day.

I’m going to discuss this with my MW team tomorrow but was wondering if anyone knows the official statistics on this? I’ve done a bit of googling but can’t seem to find the right information.

I imagine a straightforward vaginal birth is always “best” in terms of mum and baby coming out of it feeling as good as they can, but with an induction you do seem to be told to expect intervention; there are a lot of horror stories doing the rounds.

I was supposed to have one but ended up with a planned section in the end due to various things and it was all fine, definitely not the ‘easy’ route that some people seem to think though! (Well, it was for my DD to be fair - she emerged calm and blinking and without a mark on her... and to this day she is a diva about any discomfort whatsoever, goodness only knows what her little angry face would have been like if she’d had to push her way down the birth canal! )

Joking aside though I hope you get some good support from your midwife, it’s so tough waiting out those last few days. I’m pretty sure you can now request a caesarean if you quote the NICE guidelines, might be worth reading up just in case you start to feel this really would be better for you.