I agonised about whether to go for the induction but felt the doctor's advice was based upon a logical thought process so I put my trust in her. Obviously it was not the home birth I wanted but hey, I guess you can never plan for what is going to happen and I decided it would be wrong for me to wait when the baby was possibly not thriving.
I went into hospital on Friday at 6pm, a bit tearful because I was anxious about being in hospital. The midwife explained the induction procedure and at 9.20pm put in the prostoglandin part. 'Oh, your cervix is still quite high' she said, 'so this could take a while'. She advised me to have a walk around and then settle to bed in my room for the night.
I went for a good walk around the hospital. At midnight I was put on the monitor. I was having tightenings by that point but nothing major, and I lay there feeling pretty bored. I spent a lot of time listening to my hypnobirthing CD. I decided to make the best of things and totally relax so that my body would comply with the induction process.
It wasn't until 2.30am that I suddenly realised that I was having contractions that I had to breathe through which came every 30 seconds. At 2.45 the MW said I was 5cm dilated. She got me into the delivery room where I felt the urge to kneel on the floor and bear down. It was very, very intense but I tried to keep my pelvis open instead of panicking!
Dd3 was born at 3.05am, weighing 6lb, 3oz. She is a delicate little thing. The placenta was very nasty looking so I am very glad that I trusted the obstetrician to go ahead with the induction.
I've only just got home tonight feeling very tired. She is feeding constantly - probably making up for lost time! No name yet but I'm working on it...
Would thoroughly recommend hypnobirthing to anyone by the way - it really helped me, even though I didn't get the home birth I wanted, they kept the lights off as per my request and this enabled me to focus.