Can you be induced and then go home for a homebirth

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I really want a homebirth, but had to be induced before and i am worried that if it happens again they will not let me home and i will have to stay in hospital. Anyone experienced this.

nope, once you are induced, then you are essentially on a conveyor belt of care... of course, you could discharge yourself, but I imagine that you would have a hard time getting a midwife to come out to you to attend at home.

you could of course, make an informed decision to decline the induction and wait for spontaneous labour ?

no you can't as far as I know. and to be honest I wouldn't want to.

I had 2 home births I loved them BUT I loved them knowing I had very uncomplicated pregnancies and I was not in any high risk catagory at all.

Once you are induced it is not your body naturally going into labour therefore the outcome could be more unpredictable. (iirc) also as far as I know some syntocin pains are hell on earth in comparison to some labour pains so access to an epidural may well be advised

Obviously only my opinion.

Almost universally the answer will be no.

I think someone on here earlier posted that they had propess inserted and then went home, but from what I can tell that's rare.

If they break your waters and you've not had any pessaries or gel then I suppose in theory there's absolutely sweet FA they can do to stop you discharging yourself, but you'll be arguing about getting your notes back and then will have to phone your CMW team to say you're back at home, and then as you'd have been taken 'off the board' I'm not sure they'd be obliged to attend to you, and could send an ambulance to you when you went into labour rather than a MW. You'd then be on the clock with probably 24 hours to go (depending on your trust) before they would want you back in for synto if your contractions didn't start anyway.

If you have go on the synto drip of course, you'll have no chance of being at home.

I went in to be induced at 42w, had nothing happen all day (no labour rooms free) so asked about going home at 8pm that night ready to come back the following day but the MW said I'd need to see a doctor. No doctor ever turned up. That was a lie of course, there was no reason for me to stay in having had no medical procedures done, and I should have phoned DH to collect me so I could have had a decent night's sleep rather than being stuck on the bloody antenatal ward.

Induction can be hard and fast. My labour was only just over 3 hrs, crazily painful and I couldn't have got through it without epidural and being closely monitored. I think discharging yourself after induction is potentially very dangerous - if you find yourself in the position I was in, but at home without close access to drugs and specialist care.

I went home mid-induction. I couldn't bare to be in the hospital any longer, had no sleep for 4 nights and wanted my own bed. I told them I was going, so they could let me discharge myself or agree I should come back the next morning.

That was after my 2nd lot of gel, cervix was not moving anywhere, monitoring showed dc was fine and I lived next to the hospital (almost close enough to walk home when they told me I had to keep moving to help the induction process).

However, I did go back in the morning, ended up having a cs for 'failure to progress' after about a week and a half 6 days from induction starting and never considered having a homebirth with induction.

There was a lot of monitoring involved, apparently induction can cause the baby to be under stress, but I decided that my stress levels and mental state would be worse for my baby, and slept well in comfort the night I went home.

Good luck with your birth .

propess is designed to be given , then the woman is monitored and then discharged, it is designed to be an 'out patient' drug, ifyswim, but not everyone fits the criteria....