Being induced and have a cold.....

[indigobarbie]

Honestly just wanted to moan (40+12), this is my first and does anyone have any tips to cope with having the cold during labour? I fully expect to wake up tomorrow morning and be right as rain before it all starts.....

Why does it feel scary (exciting in a life changing way) to be going in to be induced anyway?? Sorry everyone, moan moan moan xx

Glad to see a post re being induced on here. Was about to post one myself.

indigobarbie,sorry can't answer your question regarding having a cold during labout unfortunately as I'm experiencing pregnancy for the first time too. I am 40+2.

Am dreading having to have my waters broken manually then being put on drip whilst I wait for labour to commence then intensify (this is the info my midwife gave me). I've heard from friends that being induced will produce a longer and more painful labour and wondered whether anyone on MN can tell me if there is any truth in this? Dreading my "Term Plus 10" appointment at the hospital on 1 March which is when I have to decide whether or not to be induced.

Hope you get better before tomorrow, indigobarbie. Good luck!

Hi Arabella thanks, I don't what there is to dread considering I haven't been through it before. I guess it's (as always for me) the lack of being in control and the fear of the unknown. Howe3ver, surely this is the same when you arenot induced so I am just being silly. I am hoping to be induced with gel and if everything is OK then get into a pool if one is available. That's the plan anyways.....

I am trying to have a positive mindset and think of the countless amounts of happy wonderful birth stories no matter how the baby is born. It's just me being petty and paranoid I think.

Good Luck and I am sure we will be absolutely fine, if anything I am amazingly uncomfortable so having the baby will ease some of my pregnancy related body moans...., that and I can't wait to meet the little wiggler xxx

Agreeing with everything you're saying, indigo. I don't think you're being petty or paranoid at all. It's natural for us humans to fear the unknown!

Like you, I'm also trying to keep positive and think about the end reward. What greater reward is there than seeing and holding your own baby for the first time???

I do keep trying to tell myself that natural labour or induced labour, whichever I end up having, will be bearable. Why else would women all over the world have baby after baby? If it was that bad, then surely everyone would stop after having one child, wouldn't they?

I just want the DD to make her appearance now - I'm also getting increasingly uncomfortable. Labour? Bring it on!

Fingers crossed for both of us and all those other girls out there who have gone over their due dates!