Like Madcatsazz, I was hoping that denial would get me through being overdue, but sadly it's not to be. I'm currently 41+4 and having had two sweeps, I need to call the hospital at lunchtime to check they still have a bed for my induction tonight. According to the midwife who did my sweep yesterday, the only problem is that my cervix is behind the baby's head, so it's not dilating as there's no pressure on it. My first sweep did nothing as she couldn't reach round to loosen the membranes; had sex that night and got a show in the morning, but second sweep also couldn't clear any more and she ended up just manipulating the cervix a bit, to no avail so far.
I'm so fed up - my pregnancy's been so straightforward and the baby is healthy and strong, so it just seems ridiculous that instead of being able to use the midwife unit (much more relaxed, your own bathroom, go in when you need to, lots of pain management options that don't involve being tied to the bed and drugged) I'll have to go in tonight to the far more regimented maternity ward for my first dose of prostin, then possibly keep having it way into tomorrow, and then have to spend my entire labour there... My health authority lets you go for 12 days, so they're banking on my labour starting tomorrow, but I know other places let you go for 14 days over and I'm getting so annoyed thinking that if I was living somewhere else, I could have my baby with no intervention in the next couple of days.
Sorry about the rant, I'm pretty much at the end of my tether with this! Good luck to everyone else in this position xx