It's 3:30am and I'm losing my mind.
I was admitted to antenatal yesterday morning for induction. So far fuck all is happening and I'm exhausted. In a stupid amount of pain and all I want to do is sleep.
But of course that's not going to happen is it? I'm in a bay with two other beds. Across from me is the snorer but really I could probably block her out. The problem is the other patient who is surgically attached to her fucking iPhone. It's the middle of the night and she's ringing all of her friends for a chat. Who does that when people are trying to sleep?! I don't give a fuck if she's missing a party to be induced. I want to enjoy the totally useless paracetamol they've deigned to give me and try to get a little rest.
The midwife isn't helping much either. She's rather old fashioned and I'm surprised she hasn't locked us in. I tried to go for a walk to escape iPhone girl and she escorted me back to bed.
AIBU to expect a little peace and quiet in here? Seriously losing it right now.
AIBU?
to want some peace and quiet on the ward?
vodkaredbull · 06/02/2016 03:38
Thinking about it, stress slows down and can stop labour so the skanky cow is probably the reason nothing is happening for you. 
I'm feeling rather hormonal today as AF has just turned up so sitting here getting very annoyed on your behalf and wanting to give her a good slapping.
OP I really feel for you and hope your baby arrives safely soon.
Induction is fucking awful. I was stuck next to a woman who was allowed ten - yes, ten visitors around her bed at all times "because she is a traveller". I imagine they just made that up as some sort of rule as they didn't want to upset them all or something.
I kept complaining and pointing out that I was trying to have a baby with all these strangers milling around, on the other side of a thin curtain, being very noisy and encroaching on my space, but they just wouldn't do anything. It was horrid and made it so hard to try to concentrate in the, erm task at hand.
Good luck 
Aw vodka I feel for you so much. The ward was the worst part of childbirth by far. I felt like I was about to have a break down and demanded to be discharged at midnight one day after 5 days of hell. Other people are the worst. People need to respect their fellow patients.
Wishing you a speedy and pain free birth 
I told a noisy neighbour to shut the fuck up when I was on the induction ward. I'd had the pessaries and they put me in a really aggressive mood and the non stop chatter of the idiot in the next bed drive me round the twist. I went out for a walk to calm down and when I got back she'd gone as her labour started. Maybe me snapping at her started her off 
In the bed opposite me when I had dd was a woman who told her newborn every time she cried in the night to "shh now mummy's tired and needs her sleep" When the poor baby was absolutely screaming I suggested that she might try feeding her baby. She insisted that the baby wasn't hungry because it was night time 
I rang for the midwife who ordered her to get out of bed and see to her baby who hadn't been fed for six hours. It wasn't her first baby apparently because she told the midwife she had never fed her other child during the night either.
It's horrendous when you are sharing your bay with people with no consideration for anyone else.
Last time I was in hospital (for surgery on a couple of broken bones) I was on morfein, but I also had some gel earplugs.
Without these I think I would have been very lucky to have slept.
Ante natal wards can be the pits.
Can't you just go home if nothing is actually happening? I'd have summoned dh to collect me last night by about 1ish from your post, it's a hospital not a prison after all.
Sympathies it sounds absolutely awful though chin up, you'll have your baby soon
And on a lighter note Hassled I expect Kevin still has nightmares about it himself
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that's really shit.
Have you asked them for a clear breakdown of the plan for you (ie when they are going to ramp it up one way or another?)
Hospital births freak me out. This is why I'm going to do everything I can to stay at home.
Really hope you're OK OP and either have baby in arms now or they have moved you to a nice, quiet room on your own.
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