I was 7 days overdue with my 2nd baby on Sunday. My 1st baby was 12 days overdue, went into labour naturally, back to back, ventouse, traumatic delivery etc. etc. I went to the hospital today for a sweep but it could not be done as my cervix was posterior. I have polyhydramnias (too much fluid) with this pregnancy so baby has only just dropped head down into my pelvis after being breech throughout.
I have been talking into getting booked in for an induction on Friday at 12 days only. I am petrified as I have never known anyone who has had a good induction - all have tales of days in hospital, excruciating pain and often a c section anyway.
I am starting to think I should just kick up a fuss and try to just go straight for a c section even though it's not something I would want.
I had an epidural with my 1st baby and cannot image going though all the interventions I did without one so am really scared of having to have painful procedures without adequate pain relief. I even find vaginal exams excruciating when in labour.
Any advice? I cannot sleep due to this worry. I just want it all to be over now.
AIBU?
To expect my induction on Friday to be horrific
MrsSeanBean1 · 24/02/2014 05:19
dd was my 5th pg. She was induced at 41.5 weeks (I had delivered one ds at 36.3 weeks - posterior - and ds at 27 weeks but he was too poorly to survive).
I was terrified on every level. Went in at about 10am and had a pessary. Not much happened to be honest but we had a good walk at lunchtime. At teatime a registrar came along and said he'd rupture the membranes but I didn't like his attitude and declined.
I think I had another pessary.
At about 8ish my waters broke fore and hind. But there was no movement vis the cervix which was about 1/2mm. They said they would put up a syntocynon drip and I said fine, no problem, but not until you put up an epidural which they agreed to. Whilst the epidural was being put in place the contractions started and they didn't bother with the drip. It was very quick from then - about 90 minutes - and there considerable shock that I seemed to have gone from a standing start to fully dilated in about 20 minutes. DD arrived just before midnight. She was 8.13 and had an apgar score of 9+. No stitches, no particular pain, just a perfect ending to a very long journey.
Good luck OP - sure all will be well. 
Just to add to my positive post earlier, DH was sent home at about 10pm as nothing had started. I was upset at the time and worried he'd miss it (hospital an hour away), but in hindsight it was fine as he was back at 9am the following morning when the contractions had just started.
Once the contractions got going, the pessary was removed. I went and had a bath on the ward, which was lovely, but started to slow my contractions down, so I got out.
In the delivery room I was free to move around as much as I wanted and be in any position. In fact I was encouraged to move around more, but I just wanted to stay on all fours on the bed with my head down!
I also didn't have my waters broken - DS was born in his sac! That was the part I was worried about, so because I was progressing quickly, they said that they didn't need to do it.
OP I hope all goes smoothly for you 
I've had 2 inductions.
First time was 12 days over, got given a pessary at 7pm, dh sent home at 10pm but i was in a labour room on my own so was sort of ok. 7.30am waters broken & put in drip. Dd arrived at 10.24am. Second degree tear but all done on gas & air, she was back to back but turned early one.
Second time was 15 days late, pessary fell out (!) but i was in early labour anyway so just waited in the induction wing for a room to become free in delivery suite. Waters broke at 9am, left till 11 to see if contractions would kick in. They didn't so waters broken at 11am. Ds arrived at 1pm after 5 mins of pushing. Gas & air again, back to back all the way through.
I was totally elated after ds's birth because i didn't tear. Was on the edge of suggesting to dh we had another immediately! 
Good luck! I dreaded induction number 2 but it was totally different to the 1st.
I was induced with my only DC.
Only 5 hours of labour on the plus side. With pethidene.
It was however, 5 hours of unending agony (when I see or hear of people having tea and toast during their labour while merrily chatting with their midwife or DP it makes me 
.
But I only spent 2 days in hospital. It would have been less but I contracted some bug they wanted to be sure the antibiotics were killing off before sending me home.
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