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Childbirth

Share experiences and get support around labour, birth and recovery.

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How long do inductions take? Your experiences please!!

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LucyJones · 17/05/2006 12:23

My SIL went in for an indiction last night at 5pm so I am eagerly awaiting that special phone call to annouce her news!! How long do you think it will be? Will theyhave started her off slow in the hope that she slept some of the night? TIA

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chapsmum · 18/05/2006 09:02

I went in on the monday
after 5 pesseries and to many sweeps to cout the chap was sooked out with some kind of vacum cleaner device on the thursday night at 10pm!!!

JayneCa · 18/05/2006 09:18

I was given first dose of hormone at 9pm and was told that it probably wouldn't start contractions off, sent home to come back for 2nd dose at 8am next day but contractions started at 3am. Babe was born at 4.30pm same day (16 days overdue!).

juuule · 18/05/2006 09:40

1st baby pessary about 8am, started working within the hour, baby born just after 10pm.

9th baby, 1st lot of gel didn't work. 2nd lot about 2pm 4 hours later didn't appear to work. Started to get pains at just after 10pm, baby born 20past11.

jersey · 18/05/2006 10:11

One and only pessary at 6:00pm friday night, 4 hours later waters broke. DS born 6:00am saturday morning.

jersey · 18/05/2006 10:12

My SIL with twins went in 5 days running each day had 2 pessaries, wouldn't work. Emergency c-section in the end. Twins born at 39 weeks.

ChaCha · 18/05/2006 11:14

Same as you Uwila.

Induced in the early hours of Friday morning (even though it was planned in the later afternoon but I arrived early as I'd started to bleed a little) and baby was delivered by c-sec on the saturday at 6.30am. Almost 24 hours later!

As Uwila said, if fetal distress had not happened might have been in there for a looong time.

Never again!!!!!

Uwila · 18/05/2006 12:15

Yeah, you add me to the "never again" club.

fairyjay · 18/05/2006 12:17

1st Baby - kept in with hbp - induced at 6pm, slight contractions at 2 am, virtually fully dilated by 8 am, ds born 10.13 am.
2nd Baby - induced at 10.10 am, dd arrived 11.29 am - and she's been in a bit of a hurry ever since!

3catstoo · 18/05/2006 12:41

My second baby was induced. Pessary late at night, nothing all night, examied in the morning, nothing happening. Midwife went to get another pessary, by the time she came back I was in agony.
Took just under 2 hours from start of labour to finish.
Third baby also induced 2 weeks late, waters broken as I was 4cm dilated without knowing. 1 hr 25 mins later out she popped.

My experiences of induction have been good ones. They do get a bad press though for being long. Not my experience.

Good Luck to your SIL.
Let us know any news.

3catstoo · 18/05/2006 12:50

I requested that if all was well with baby that I only wanted to stay in for the minimum 6 hours after birth.
I stayed in the delivery suite for 6 hours with my 2nd and 3rd baby. With no 3 I went in at 10.30am and was home by 6.45pm with my other 2 children and hubby. It was perfect.
If I get to have the 4th I desire then I will request the same again. No overnight stay and just a cheese sarnie for lunch, so no yukky hospital food.
Don't get worked up about your impending birth, everyone is different. I'm sure for every 'horror' story out there there are half a dozen good ones, people just don't tell the good ones as often!

Lio · 18/05/2006 13:02

Into hospital 8am Friday, baby born midday Sunday. Friday is a bad day to go into hospital though as I wasn't seen for ages and ages and then it didn't work.

MINIMAX · 18/05/2006 13:07

I was induced at 5pm (OMG I realise now I can't remember what day of the week my son was born on - how terrible is that , anyway, he was born at 7pm the next evening so 14 hours - boy was that a long 14 hours - thought he'd shoot out once they induced me as he was 13 days overdue!!!!

mosschops30 · 18/05/2006 13:09

Was 15 days overdue, induced at 8pm, contractions started properly at 4am ds was born at 10.35am so 6.5 hours, which was pretty good, given that my first labour which was spontaneous was 25 hours

NatalieJane · 18/05/2006 13:25

I went in at 9pm on a Sunday evening, they put the first lot of gel in saying they didn't expect it to work, and it didn't. 6am they put the second lot in, which started niggling pains which had turned into full blown contractions by about 12pm, DS was born about 5.30 that afternoon, so from the first lot of gel 20 hours-ish, but once I got to about 6cm, it went really quickly (an hour till fully dilated and then only 15 minutes second stage) so your SIL may take a bit longer.

Good luck :)

oranges · 18/05/2006 13:33

First baby, two weeks EARLY because the placenta was calcifying. PEssary at 2am - told absolutely nothing would happen, so I didn't think the awful pain around my hips were contractions. By the time I figured it out at 8.30am and sent my husband to get a midwife, baby's head was visible , and appeared 30 mins later. So 6.5 hours.

oranges · 18/05/2006 13:37

And no sodding pain relief. Not even gas and air

geekgrrl · 18/05/2006 13:41

I went in on Saturday evening and dd1 (first baby) was born on Tuesday morning. Lots of pessaries with little effect. Grim, grim, grim!

Tommy · 18/05/2006 13:42

I had first pessary at 4pm on Wednesday and DS1 finally got pulled out at 11pm on Thursday

arfy · 18/05/2006 13:46

kept in at appointment because of high BP (3 days after due date)
first pessary at about 9pm - nothing
next one at 8am in the morning
labour kicked off around 1pm
DD (first labour) born at 9.53 that evening weighing 9lbs 14oz

only gas and air

quite an experience! never again if at all possible

my friend (and you aren't going to want to hear this) was induced at 12 days over on Dec28th
3 failed pessaries later she was sent home for the day for a rest, then back in for another pessary and the drip. baby eventually born evening of Jan 2nd, ventouse, and only 7lbs after all that.

i.e. there really is no telling. Sorry!

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LucyJones · 18/05/2006 15:20

update on birth announcements thread "11lber"
Thanks for all the replies

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kittylette · 18/05/2006 15:31

I went in at 4pm, had gel at about 6pm,

nothing till 2am when my waters popped (but didnt come out as his head was wedged! lol) and i gave birth 6 hours later :)

im hoping this labour starts naturally, im planning a home birth!

kitty, 36+3

cla1re · 18/05/2006 16:06

I went into hospital 1030am wed, was given prostin gel, nothing happened so 6 hrs later they gave me another dose of prostin and by 11pm I was having contractions but my waters still hadn't broken. So was given morphine and left until 5am Thurs when I was given another injection of morphine and my waters had to be broken. Gas+Air and epidural and at 541pm thurs baby arrived by normal delivery!!! 18 hours of labour in total. Loved every minute though!!!

ssd · 18/05/2006 17:38

first ds, went in Tuesday afternoon firsy lot of gel 3pm. Second lot 9pm Tuesday night. Pain but not dilating 3rd lot og gel 7am Wed morning. Agony but not dilating. Eventually after baby being in distress twice had waters broken 5-6pm on Wed night, felt like I was floating in and out of reality with the pain by now (no pain relief so far...) Then started to dilate, epidural about 8ish and baby born just after midnight on Thurs early early morning!!Hellish start to finish.

second ds went in at 7am got gel again and demanded epidural , got it, baby born eventually that night just before midnight. Think I only had one lot of the gel second time, major difference demanded and got epidural a lot sooner. Thank God for drugs!!

Would go through it all again for the wee buggers but thank God I don't have to!

louise35 · 18/05/2006 18:47

Mine was done at 37 weeks at 11am on the Friday (I had been in hospital since the Wednesday due to pre-eclampsia) and I had my DD at 8.35 on the Saturday night. It was bloody painful having it done as they could not find my cervix (it had gone behind the baby's head) and I had the midwife rummaging about inside my undercarriage for about 20 minutes trying to find it, not pleasant but at least just that one dose of gel started me off. I was in agony by 6pm but managed with a Tens up until the following Saturday afternoon at about 1.30 when they had to break my waters. I didn't like being hooked up to the sintocinon drip which seems to be a trait for induced births, I felt less mobile than I could have been. I dilated very very slowly then it seemed to happen all at once, and got very painful and by this time I was very tired so I had epidural which did not work that well but did ease things a bit through the transition stage. I finally pushed my gorgeous baby girl, weighing 8lb 3oz into the world and fell instantly in love. I only wished I could have got pregnant again and had a natural birth then I could have experienced two entirely different births. They do say that a natural birth is usually quicker and less painful but as I've not experienced it I really would not know. Something that happened to me afterwards was I swelled right up, my face, legs, feet were huge and puffy. I never found out why, is it because of all the fluids that are pumped into you during an induced labour?

Florizel · 18/05/2006 19:36

2nd baby: On due date, pessary at 7pm, baby born at 9.45pm.

But I think I might have had the baby that night without a pessary anyway as I was 3 cm dilated before the pessary, though no contractions.

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