to ask you to make me less bored during induction?

[Blue2014]

Day 3 of induction today, had pains that kept me awake all last night and now nothing.

I'm so bored I am literally going out of my mind (have sobbed and had panic attacks)

Traditionally my hobby is work

Please please tell me what I can do to make the time go faster (and please don't say "just relax, you'll have no time soon. I can't relax, doing nothing is creating further anxiety)

I do have loads of available resources. iPad with skyQ, a kindle, some magazines, an iPhone and (of course) mumsnet ... I don't know how it's possible to be bored with all that but I am.

Any tips?

Ooh good luck.

When I'm bored I like to meal plan/ look at recipes. Could you do an online shop of fancy ready meals/nice fruit/cake for when you get home?

My induction took an age. I kept myself 'busy':

Watching stuff on Netflix on my iPad.
Reading crappy magazines.
Walking around the hospital looking at the art on display.
Colouring in my adult colouring in book- this took up a lot of time!

Do you have Pinterest Blue?? That can keep me going for hours!

Box set of something really trashy. Walking Dead?

Audiobook? Podcasts?

Well done for getting bored, mine was awful and spent the whole time trying not to make a noise in a public ward, being way more dilated than I 'ought' to be... then dd got stuck any way.

I can waste hours on Spotify - making up playlists of one hit wonders from my youth, playlists of guilty pleasure songs I do love a good power ballad. I walked about for most of my induction but it wasn't as long as yours. Good luck

I went through a 3 day induction last week. Are they going to put you on a drip? I would start a gripping box set which you could then carry on when baby is feeding. Are you able to go for walks around? Gravity and all...

been there.....read all the books about how to look after the baby as once it arrives (assuming you haven't a bunch of kids at home already)

you will be too busy and I know I was so focused on the birth I hadn't really looked beyond it iyswim

All the best

Sign up to Duolingo and see how much of a random language you can learn?

Could you write me a poem? I'd like it to include a pony, some glitter and big hairy toes.

It's a bit of a long shot, but you don't have a Nintendo DS (get someone to bring one in)? Professor Leyton games have saved my sanity several times....

Thanks everyone, great tips (and the clever hospital shop sells most of the ideas given including £9 for colouring crayons!)

5000: There once was a old man called Tony
Who loved his 'my little pony'
What no one else knows
Is he rubs glitter on his toes
To stop him from feeling too phoney ...

Still, here - not a thing happening

Tweeze your leg hairs (assuming you can reach).

I can't!

March? I laboured by literally marching and pacing the room/halls etc. If you can't get mobile due to equipment then can you march on the spot?

Dancing, especially hip gyrations. create some playlists?

You could watch The Gruffalo five thousand fucking times in preparation for the toddler years

Draw a picture of every different midwife you see - along with a nickname for them

Ask for some pethidine and have a nap. That's what I did on day three of my induction. It was either that or I was going to punch the next midwife who told me I was still only 1cm dilated. Which is EXACTLY how dilated I was when I'd been admitted.

Oramorph sent me to sleep after about 12 hours of labour. Oooh lovely.

I spent most of my induction playing candy crush. Even when I started contracting I managed to use it to ignore them!

Throw a massive strop.

Garden

Mistletoe - good plan, I shall plan a disco for one

List writing:

Christmas plans
Potential holiday destinations
How you'd spend £10m
Long term to do list
List of all the delicious foods to treat yourself to when this silly baby is out
Clothes wish list

I could list write for Britain (good luck).

Thanks again

Tootsie - me too!! (Although mine has now also included a junior male doctor with spade hands shoving them so far and rough inside me that DH winced watching it. Shovel hands should rule you out of this career!)

Oh the sleepy drugs sound good ...

I read a really exciting thriller novel. There were explosions and lots of nice plot twists.

Good luck