Induction experiences!.....

[YummyMummy17]

I might have to be induced and would like to hear everyone's reviews on it.... ?

What all happens?
Is it sore?
Is getting your waters broken sore?
Does it make labour last longer ?

Please help...
I would just like to have as much info about it before it might have to happen !

i am really exhausted my muscles, bones you name it, it's aching this is my 1st and am finding myself VERY tired and upset....
also babys dad works away and because he has only worked away for 2month he cant apply for any parental leave... he goes back 2weeks today so would like baby out asap have midwife on monday so wil

i am really exhausted my muscles, bones you name it, it's aching this is my 1st and am finding myself VERY tired and upset....
also babys dad works away and because he has only worked away for 2month he cant apply for any parental leave... he goes back 2weeks today so would like baby out asap have midwife on monday so wil

Hi,

I gave birth just over three weeks ago, it was early due to pre-eclampsia so I was induced before my body was fully ready. The doctors were concerned I would need a C-section but everything went really well.

I was given the pessaries over a 24 hour period and nothing happened, I was sat up in bed talking to visitors and wondering around with no pain. Anyway the doctors said it had not worked so were going to check me for viability in a further 24 hours - to everyone's surprise I had dilated to 2cms so the doctor popped my waters.

Nothing happened so after 6 hours they decided to put me on the dreaded syntocin drip - I asked for an epidural at this point and I was clear I wanted it because I knew the drip was mega painful - luckily (if you know what I mean) I also had a medical reason to have one as my bp was very high due to the pre-eclampsia.

After this I was put on all sorts of monitors, bp, contractions and babies heart beat.

I then went to sleep for 7 hours ( apart from a couple of examinations and the bp machine monitoring my bp) they woke me at 5 am to check I was 10cm dilated they left me for 1 hour to give my baby a chance to inch his way down alone - as he was still very high up due to being early. Then at 6 oclock the midwife came in and asked me to start pushing - I had had him by 6:15 with no rips or tears.

I have to say I think the reason it was so simple in the end was because I was calm, trusted the staff and I had no pain.

So if you are given the drip insist on decent pain relief and you should get the result you want.

here's a good one ...

I was induced at 13 days over - 14 days would have been a weekend and they wouldn't do it then and there was no way with all my SPD, aches and pains that I could wait until the Monday!

Pessary around midnight, DH went home at 1 am - woke about 5 am with period type pains, had paracetomol ... had a couple of hours crawling around the bed on the ward getting worse and worse pains - examined at 7 am and 6 cm ... down to delivery suite, lots of lovely g&a, DH arrived at 8:15, in the pool (lovely) at 8:30, DD arrived in the sac at 8:45 am before I'd had a chance to think about pushing!

So it's not always bad, but I agree that it prob depends on how ready your body is for labour - I obv just needed a kickstart!

If you get induced does your birthing partner(s) have to go home until your in proper labour? I would like my birthing partner(s) to be with me all the way through as I am petrified of the thought of being in hospital doing it all myself ..... ?

Help please

x

Erm, yes and no. they wont be there all the time. For example I had the pessary at 7pm as I said earlier, hubby went home from 9pm until 8am when I was taken down to labour ward for further induction. Obviously if I was in full labour before then he'd have called them. I was in a ward with another girl who was being induced and she talked teh whole night about wanting her husband there all night with her, not wanting to be alone etc so you wont be the 1st to feel like that but TBH I quite liked being on my own id only ahve got annoyed with dh. However, looking back I think Id quite liked to have crawled under a bush and given birth all on my own so maybe Im weird!!!

that should have said they'd have called him.

I was offered an induction at 38 weeks with no medical reason. If I'd known what I know now about inductions I'd have refused, but at the time it seemed like a good idea & I went ahead. Luckily it wasn't too bad. Had a couple of pessaries, starting about 8am & waters were broken (a bit ouch that) can't quite remember when & reasonably OK labour with delivery just before midnight.

Yummymummy - if you're induced and your body isnt ready to kick the baby out yet, it is likely that the induction will take a long time. You will most likely be on an antenatal ward with other women (some of whom may be in labour already, others being induced or under observation) - your partner can only be with you during visiting hours. They will most likely start with pessaries if not dilated, then move to breaking waters and a drip on the labour ward - once you move to the labour ward your partner can be with you again. There are plenty of positive induction stories out there - and plenty of not so positive ones. My first birth was an induction at 42 weeks and was not a great experience. Having had that experience I swore that unless medically necessary I would not be induced again. Though I took alot of stuff away from it and applied that to my DS2's birth and had a great experience (not induced that time).

My top tips are:

• if you're going to on an antenatal ward to be induced, accept that you are probably not going to get much sleep if any from when you go in. Take an ipod with calming music (will help drown out noise from other women there), ear plugs and an eye mask with you to try to sleep when and where you can.

• keep active as much as you can in early labour - and eat. It will help speed up the labour. Ideally this is the stage you'd be at home for if you werent being induced doing your day to day stuff any way so apply the keep mind and body busy philosophy.

• when you're on a drip you're put on continual foetal monitoring which means movement is v restricted - though with a supportive midwife you can still mobilise, rock on birth ball etc.

• keep an open mind re pain relief. Some people need it, some dont. Do what you want and need.

• make sure your birth partner and assigned midwife know your birth wishes (re vit k, feeling to push etc.) early on - when it comes to full on labour you wont be able to answer those kinds of questions from a midwife/doctor/paediatrician.

Good luck.

Depends on circumstance I think. I was induced at 6pm and DP was supposed to be kicked out at 9pm but by that point I was in labour so they let him stay. But the original plan was for DP to go home and come back in the morning when I was "supposed" to be in labour . As it happened, I laboured all night and DS was born via ventouse at 7am.

I'd avoid doing it again. I went from Braxton Hicks to full on contractions 5 mins apart in about half an hour. And I was constantly monitored so moving around was difficult. It did feel quite unnatural and managed and not how I'd wanted my labour but both DS and I came out of it fine, which is the most important thing of course.

I was induced at 39 weeks cause of my high blood pressure, (I was also happy cause I knew we were leaving the country on a set date and this way the baby would be old enough to travel). I went in and had the first pessary at 1.30pm went for lunch with DH, (not offered tea) at 6.30 was given the 2nd pessary, monitored cause of bp, given pethidine to slow contractions from 8 in 10 minutes (as they were not doing anything, and not in actual labour), DH was sent home at 10.30pm, bp monitored every 15 mins I got no sleep, at 3am was given a tablet to nutrelize the stomach acid incase I needed a cs,which made me sick and epidural was done, then they broke my waters, spent the rest of the night unable to move not getting any sleep cause of the bp monitor and feeling like I'd wet myself, in the morning I was given no breakfast and then about 10am I was given another tablet to do my stomach acid thing that again made me sick. Had DS blood gases checked and he was starting to go down hill so I had foreceps and the DR put her foot on the end of the bed and PULLED him out with me trying to push but not being able to feel a thing. DS was in special care for a few hours and I was stiched for 45 mins and lost over a liter of blood. start to finish I was in there 25 hours before DS arrived, DS is now 2.7 years and I'm 26 weeks pregnant, If this baby arrives on time she will be 6 weeks when we move back to the uk, I hope I won't need to be induce for medical reasons and I certainly won't be asking for one just to get her out on time.

Induced at 37 +6 due to pre-eclampsia. I hyper-stimulated on pessary so was given drugs to stop the contractions as there were so many there wasn't a break between them and they weren't doing anything anyway.
I had a ARM 3 days later, didn't hurt was a bit like a fiddley smear test. Nothing happened so went on drip a few hours later. Had textbook contractions, dilated in textbook format, baby born 7 hours after drip went up, had gas and pethedine. I've since heard that synto (drip) contractions are more intense than standard ones but it was first baby and I didn't know any different so I just got on with it. Bounced on ball, had a mobile monitor and did breathing. Was a good birth experience, not ideal but good.

Hi Yummy,

Partners being with you throughout induction - i think this depends on the hospital and how long your labour is going to be. As i had a long one, my partner was sent home twice, one on the friday morning after a few hours, then he came back visiting hours 6ish and ended up staying through the night as i was down labour ward. He then got sent home again the sat morning to sleep until a few hours before the section. If you are going to be induced, id ring the hospital and see what their thoughts on it are, and be firm that you want your partner to stay when you get there. One of my friends husband was sent home, and nearly missed the birth, as midwifes were insisting contractions were 'induction pain'. The other of my friends who has been induced, her husband stayed throughout, and it was not a problem. If hospital policy is to start you off in the morning though, and it goes through to the night they will probably suggest partner goes home, just for some sleep.