Induction stories?

[Markygirl1995]

Looking to have mine on Friday I'm over due a week today and need this one out! If you have any stories to share to get myself ready it would be appreciated. I am expecting the worst to happen

I went into hospital on the Saturday, already 1cm dilated so no need for pessaries. The delivery suite was super busy so I had to wait around on the ward doing crosswords until 7am Sunday morning, waters broken, put on the drip at 11am, DD born at 7pm naturally with just gas and air. No stitches required.

Induction gets a bad wrap but you can never predict any birth. My friend went into labour naturally and ended up having an emergency section under general anesthetic. What happens will happen and the most important thing is delivering the baby safely.

Good luck, you'll be fine!

@sayanythingelse thank you for sharing that with me, I've heard good and bad stories being a FTM I guess you've got to predict the worst outcome

At 37+1 I had a 24 hour pessary put in at 7am, I immediately got pains and "contractions" but not sure that they were proper contractions. I had this for five hours and then baby's heart rate started to dip so they took the pessary out and were able to break my waters. From this point it was much more painful so I had some pethidine and gas and air which didn't help with the pain itself, but took my mind elsewhere. I got moved to delivery after they broke my waters and when I got there I continued with the gas and air for a few hours and then had an epidural. My baby's heart rate began dipping again so they checked me and I was only 2cm so they took me for a emergency section as waiting for me to fully dilate would be too long. I was fully prepped for surgery and when they went to put the catheter in they told me that they could see my baby's head! I'd gone from 2cm to 10cm in half an hour and he was delivered in two pushes with forceps and an episiotomy at 7:30pm. It was all very quick and despite the worries with the baby's heart rate, it was a fairly positive experience. He's now 13 days old and I would say that I am fully recovered. Good luck!

I was induced on Friday because I was overdue (also ftm and really didn’t want to be induced because of all the things I’ve heard about it!) but honestly it was fine, and I’m a complete wimp with pain!
I had the pessary put in at 7:30pm by 4:30am I was starting to have contractions that were two minutes apart but not particularly painful, my waters partially broke at 5:30am and by 7am they examined me and I was 5cm, I got to 10cm by around 9:30 and just after 10:30am dd was born! I only had gas and air for the last three hours so I wouldn’t say it was too painful either!
I did have ventouse but only for the final push as I’m very small and she was a fairly big and a bit stuck!
Good luck, try to relax and think positive, what will be will be and induction doesn’t mean longer or more painful labour!

Fortunately or unfortunately your labour could go anyway regardless of whether you are induced.

The worse recent births I know started naturally and are a VBAC and a breech which both ended up as emergency C-sections. There as I had an easy induction with no instruments, no epidural and I was considered high risk, unlike the 2 ladies who ended up with emergency C-sections.