Failed induction - mental health severe can I ask for c section?

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Not really an AIBU but posting on here to see if other woman can help advise or if you have been in this situation

I wanted a c section due to mental health reasons (baby after previous losses - no living children) but after talking to consultant decided to go for induction instead

Ive been here 24 hours, not slept and the screams and other woman around me are distressing my mental health so bad that I want to go home or ask for a c secrion

Has anyone else done this? I feel like a failure but I wish I stuck to my guns at my consultant appointment and regretting it every second.

Ask for a C-section, although from my experience I think it was offered at the 24hr mark? Maybe it was 36hrs. Admittedly not offered with any sort of encouragement, but the person on the ward who did go down that route was the first out of hospital with their healthy child.

Don't feel like a failure. How you give birth doesn't determine the mother that you'll be, and that's the important part of parenting. I'm sorry things are hard right now.

Hello. Sorry you're going through this. You're not a failure! Doesn't matter how your baby arrives 🙂 The medical staff are there to support you. I don't know if they will be able to do a c section, but I think you need to talk to them, explain how you are feeling, and see what the options are xx

Absolutely you can ask for a c section. You can also withdraw consent for the induction treatment and tell them you are going home. I'm sure that in combination will get them to agree to a section pretty quickly.

You can request a c-section at any time yes. You don’t have to have an induction that you don’t want. Please talk to the staff looking after you about how you are feeling and ask to have a review with the consultant.

You can definitely request a c-section. I had my baby in November after being admitted to the antenatal ward for induction at 40 weeks 2 days. They tried two different methods of induction (pessary, then rods), neither of which worked at first attempt and then offered me choice of c-section or to re-attempt the induction. I think I had been there 48 hours when c-section was first put to me as an option.
After much deliberation I decided to try both methods of induction again and the pessary got things going on the second attempt.
I remember the time on the antenatal ward as the most difficult part of the whole experience for me. I was there five nights in total and hardly slept at all in all that time. I'm sorry you are going through this
There is nothing wrong with asking for c-section

Absolutely ask for a c section if that's what you want! The last thing you need when baby is born is to be exhausted and stressed from your time in the hospital

I never wanted a c-section but after a failed induction I asked for one instead of them attempting to manually break my waters. Best decision ever!
Had a gentle c-section. Was confidently doing all bodily functions and able to go home the next day with my perfect DD.
Up and about on strolls with her I'm days.
My recovery was amazing and faster with less complications than my friends who had vaginal births around the same time.

Protect your health. Get the section . Take your beautiful baby home .

Have you got noise cancelling headphones whilst you wait for a decision to be made either way? Good luck op with whatever you decide

I asked from day 1 for a c section as I had a really bad experience being induced with my first daughter - it was a circus of fuck ups which resulted in emergsncy forceps after 3 days of induced labour.

HOWEVER, my consultant second time round supported my c section choice all the way until the week before I had my DD2. I had a bad accident and couldn’t walk properly and had horrific pain and wouldn’t have known if I had gone into natural labour - anyway, at the last minute I asked to be induced and if it didn’t work within 24 hours to have a c section which they agreed to.

you are well within your right to ask for a c section , mental health , fear of birth etc anything that makes you distressed or anxious . You can go home whilst being induced cause it can take all day. My second I was induced on Monday morning around 8 am , and nothing happened except contractions all day I slept through most then at 12 midnight Monday they moved me to labour room , broke my waters, ramped up the chemical contractions and by 10:30 she was born. The whole process was brilliant and would do it all again, the midwife’s were amazing and k also had an epidural , was bliss.

so just to recap I was 1,000 billion percent set on a c section and ended up with the most relaxed induction ever. (Disclaimer though, I threw up after the both almost on the midwife , obv shit myself in labour and literally collapses on top on a HCA as one leg from the eipidural didn’t wake up for a few hours lol)

Also saw two dead people - one in a bag in the hallway on way to the mortuary and the other from my labour room window . Both not related to babies or pregnancy, just the way the hospital is laid out. The old people dying ward is opposite the maternity ward.

someone clearly had a sense of humour when deciding what wards would go were

How are you now? Any further forward?