Induction tomorrow at 40+1 experiences please

[ExhaustedAndHormonal]

So due date today. Had midwife.. Baby still measuring small. So they have booked induction for first thing tomorrow.
Which I'm now terrified about
Easy to now sort childcare I suppose

How quick do contractions start?
Are they more painful than going naturally?
How long untiyou held your baby?

I did have a sweep today tho and walking loads so hopefully I may get going a little on my own... Wishful thinking I suppose

I was induced two weeks ago - from the first pessary to my baby being born it was 55 hours!

Contractions started within about 30 minutes - It was painful, and hard due to lack of sleep!

I had two pessarys, two sweeps, then my waters were broken and I had the drip.

Ended up with an EMCS.

However, I know many people who were induced who still had lovely, straightforward births and never needed the drip etc. All depends how your body responds to it all.

My advice is keep walking! It really helps. I must have wandered the hospital hundreds of times.

I would say go into it with an open mind and no set plan. I had to be adaptable, and had an epidural (48 hours in, had gas and air up until this point) which I didn't original want but it made the delivery much calmer and to be honest wish I had it sooner.

Good luck

I’ve been induced twice. First time had a pessary in the morning as wasn’t even slightly dilated. Had a walk and got some light period pains overnight. Had a bath and managed to get quite a bit of sleep. Checked again in the morning and was dilated enough for them to break my waters so off to delivery (still no real pains). Waters broke but no contractions after an hour so drop started. Within 30 minutes was contracting, after 2 hours was fully and took me another hour to push him out. No pain relief at all!

2nd time I was checked and was 1-2cms, pessary inserted around 6pm. Sent OH Home as expecting a long night. By 11pm I was having mild period pains, called OH at 2am with contractions and gave birth at 4am. Again, no pain relief.

Overall lovely experiences and if I’m induced this time it won’t bother me in the slightest!

I have some period type cramps at mo.. Guessing from sweep. I think I was 1cm when did sweep this morning she just said I need to thin out a bit more.? Maybe by tomorrow I will be.
Ivd walked about 5 miles since in hope it helps

@ExhaustedAndHormonal that's a good sign - Hopefully when you get there tomorrow you'll be well on your way!

I was induced last weekend with second baby, 39 weeks. First tablet inserted 1am. On off period type pains. Another tablet inserted 9am. Did lots of walking. Stronger pains until about 1pm when I fell asleep. Got up and mw gave me a sweep, did lots of walking again. Pains ramped up and turned into contractions at about 5-6pm. Waters broke at 6.30 pm. DS2 born at 7.17pm!

First degree tear no stitches!

It was very quick so very painful but actually a much better experience than the au naturale labour I had with DS1.

Good luck!

Start to finish was 9hours. First baby induced at 39+6. Pessary inserted and midwife said I was 1cm and cervix looking favourable. Within the hour the pains began and quickly built up. Got put back onto monitor early evening as I wasn’t feeling movements(reason for induction). Change of shift and new midwife told me to remove my pessary straight away as baby wasn’t happy. She then examined me and I was 2-3cms. I was despairing at this point as the pain was unbearable. They then decided to break my waters and within 30mins I wanted to push. Ten mins later baby made his arrival. Just needed an episiotomy as he had his hands up on his face.

I think it all depends on the individual etc as everyone is so different!

Good luck :)

My advice would be to discuss pain relief before you are induced. I had the propess and went to 10cm in under four hours but the midwives wouldn’t check me/transfer me to labour ward/give me pain relief as nothing was meant to happen for 24 hours