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?

Oh I sympathise.
Had a gynaecologist examine me with spade hands once.
Good luck x

Shovel hands aren't always terrible! The doctor that DH nicknamed Dr Sausage Fingers was incredibly gentle, the teeny midwife with teeny hands felt like a JCB up me foof :)

Ooh dear, I shall blame shovel Docs technique rather than his genes then

Oh my. The memories I have of that pain. I was actually relieved when doctor finally said no still no dilation prep her for csection. Except the nurses had already prepped me as they just knew...

Oh god my induction was 3 days with my twins and it was soooooooo boring!! I was all excited for it to all get going. Make sure you take a photo whilst your still pregnant to look back on
Are you able to get up and walk about?

By the way Tootsie - what got baby out in the end and how long did it take?

I love you all dearly, you've cheered me up.

Original - I think I'm now hoping for the c section offer too ...

I would still go with throwing a massive strop, dramatically flouncing, then giving birth to baby assisted by two burly security guards in the car park.
The dm would surely give you a fiver for the trouble. And we can all see that selfie you took at the last push.
Front page I reckon.

I can lose whole days playing the 'jigsaw world' app. Good luck.

Why are they inducing you OP, if you don't mind me asking?

I played hidden object games on my iPad for hours sat on a birthing ball when I wasn't doing laps of the hospital. Best of luck!

Original - I could totally work that, I've got the temperament for it right now

Garden - late onset gestational diabetes and an apparent big baby. It's my first. Was 39+2 when I came in but am rapidly approaching the due date. I made a mistake in agreeing, i should have waited

I would get up, get dressed and make like you are leaving. This usually stirs things up, either the baby will make an appearance or you will be offered a c-section.

There's a word puzzle game on the iPad kind of like a word search that I could waste hours playing. unFortunately the iPad doesn't belong to me so I don't get to play very often!

Ask/demand for an electric breastpump. Fucking magic for helping induction.
Get upright on a birthing ball whilst pumping each side for 15 mins each. Make sure you can watch some shite but entertaining telly at the same time and your curtains are closed

"You could watch The Gruffalo five thousand fucking times"

Don't be silly. Noone's that bored....

(Don't do it)

Toads advice is good.

Queenarseclangers. Is that how you got your username?

Mine was gestational diabetes also. I wish I'd told them to do one with the induction and just waited it out as well.

I think what got me from 1cm to 3cm in the end was walking downstairs sideways a lot like a crab / demented ballerina. Then, I got the dreaded drip

Hope things have moved a long for you. By the end of day three, I was off my tits on every single available drug. Fun times!

Good luck!

Thanks.

Still nothing happening

tootsie if you're still reading - that's where I'm up to now. In hindsight if you could choose between Caesarian and the drip, which would you have preferred?

Baby is really not cooperating! How have you amused yourself since?

He really isn't!

Two "discos for one" with a cheesy play list, one colouring book, two films, a visit from my sister and a brief mental breakdown (that involved me flouncing off the ward and telling DH I'd decided not to give birth after all )

Oh, plus lots of research of every possible induction technique. I have now read research papers that neither midwife nor junior doctor have

You have my sympathies. I was in for 3 days, watching crap tv, reading, walking crab like up and downstairs and DD refused to budge (although my waters did break. On the fourth day, I ended up on a drip then an emergency c-section (because DD's heart rate dropped post-epidural). In hindsight I'd go straight for a c-section as they pretty much inferred that as they were taking no risks with us (my age and first baby) that's how it would end up... or demand an epidural as they got the drip going. Saying that I still have images of the TV being surround by a blue light from the gas and air

I've got this great game on my phone called Alto's Adventure where you have to get this little man to snowboard down a hill. The graphics are very lovely and the sounds are very relaxing. It sets you little challenges that are mostly about catching llamas in the early levels.

HTH :-)