To have refused induction and left hospital??

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Went in to labour ward with reduced movements today. 3rd episode this pregnancy but probably just me being paranoid.

Went on the monitor, had a good long trace and the baby moved well etc.

Consultant came to see me, wanted me to have a scan but the scan dept had just closed so was happy for me to go home and come back first thing.
Then the shift changed. New consultant wanted me not only to stay in, but be induced straight away. Not because the baby seemed unhappy, just because it was a 3rd episode.

I really don't want to be induced, I'm hoping for a WBAC and think induction wouldn't help. So I refused induction and I've gone home, to go back in first thing for further monitoring and scan.

AIBU? SO hard to know what to do.

I am NOT a midwife but I seem to recall that having an induction after a previous section is a bad idea. Of course, the drugs etc may have changed in the years since I had my DC.

Maybe you should go online and look it up. Or do you have a community midwife you could call?

All the best with this one.

This is my thread from January of it helps. Placental scan seemed to be the way to go. Good luck!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a1964132-To-still-have-a-homebirth

try again... how many weeks are you, OP? What has happened to make you worry about reduced movements?

Sorry - I'm 38+4. They offered me a place in the ward to be monitored but I had my toddler with me with nearest childcare over an hour away, so as baby was moving ok I decided to come home on the understanding that ill go back if I'm concerned.

Well if you'd not been there at shift change you wouldn't have questioned doing what you did, so yanbu.