non engagement and induction

[buckles]

Hi,
I am 40+5 and the babies head has still not engaged yet, got a sweep on tuesday- unlikely that it os going to help though I would have thought if the baby is not down yet.
Any one got any experience of this and how successful induction was if they were not engaged?
Getting really upset about it all so some advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks

bumping for you .

There is still plenty of time for your baby to engage, some babies dont engage until the onset of labour, either way you dont have to agree to be induced.

Is this your first baby?

thanks for bumping, yes it is my first, no problem with induction per se just if it is not going to work!

personally i would wait and see what happens, alot can happen in a week.

bumping again

hi buckles I was examined at 40 weeks exactly, mw said baby not engaged at all.. started making noises about induction (which I said I would refuse as planned HB)

baby arrived at 41+1

please remember that the due date is approximate. In France full term babies are 41 weeks and really you can go to 42 (and beyond with medical supervision) with no problems at all. The NHS have decided 40 weeks but babies (as you will soon find out) do not conform to 'protocols'

I'm with twocutedarlings - do a bit of research into induction before agreeing to it. Trust your body and your baby

Good luck!!

Well, I was induced at 40+11 with a baby who didn't engage.

The induction itself was OK - things got going very quickly after just one lot of gel and I progressed pretty rapidly.

But as it turned out, even after 20 hours of labour, and loads of bouncing up and down on my birthing ball, my son never moved down. I know this doesn't happen often, but he was simply too big - or to be precise, he was big (9lb6oz) and his shoulders were so broad he couldn't manouever himself into the right position to move down.

I do agree with the others - that at your stage it would be best to wait and try and be as active as you can. I know inductions get a bad rep, but sometimes they are a good idea...the outcome for us without it would not have been good at all.

Neither of my dd's engaged until I went into labour (with dd1 10 days over, dd2 14 days over, no induction - well I was induced with dd2 but only after labour had started)

Good luck.

Hey, cheer up!
All will be well, plenty of time!

I had good experience with induction for DS1 at 42 weeks, emergency CS with DS2 at 31 weeks (whole other story ), and great spontaneous drug free delivery with DS3 at 42+10.

So, relax, que sera, sera. Keeping active, walking, raspberry leaf capsules, acupuncture, spicy curry - I tried all of the above trying to avoid another section.

I agree with above posters: babies come when they are ready and usually your body knows what to do.

Best of luck!!