Anyone in France?

[nappyaddict]

I was just wondering what the usual time is for people to be induced in France.

I know they calculate the due date differently in that they count 2 weeks from 1st day of LMP and then add exactly 9 months on. So if the 1st day of your LMP was 1st Feb, 2 weeks from that would be 15th Feb, so your due date would be 15th November. Apparently this means the length of pregnancy to due date is usually between 41 weeks and 41+3 weeks.

Do they still induce at 42 weeks like us or do they to wait until 43 weeks?

I've had two babies in France and have gone by UK calculations in my head but both times my doctor has revised and updated due dates after detailed scans. DS arrived exactly on due date and DD2 three weeks ahead of both my calculations and the doctors'. I've never heard of anyone being left long after their due date here - most doctors will have you in for monitoring and induce you no more than 3 days late. Speak to your doctor about his/her policy.

I depends on your hospital. I was induced 10 days after my due date for DS (they had my due date wrong because I had 45-day cycles but wouldn't listen to me...).
I had to go to the hospital every other day to be monitored and to have a scan to check there was enough amniotic fluid and the placenta was OK.

javotte How many weeks/days were you when you were induced?

I'm not totally sure about the dates, but I think it was 42 weeks and 5 days after the first day of my last period.
I didn't know at the time that you could refuse to be induced (I was a naive first-time mother). I wish I had told them where to stick their prostaglandin gel...

From what date did you have to go every other day to the hospital for checks? Was it from your due date or from 42 weeks?

In my (very limited) experience they don't like you to go over your due date. For DD1 (in 2006) I had a sweep when she hadn't made an appearance the day after my due date. Labour started that afternoon, not sure what would have happened if it hadn't.

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I had to go to the hospital from the day after my due date.
But it really depends on your hospital, there is no standard protocol. I gave birth in a "ami des bébés" hospital where they really tried to do things naturally (no episiotomy, skin to skin contact after birth, no bath for the baby on the day of the birth...). Sadly, there are still many hospitals where they try to get the child out of you as soon as they can because it messes up their planning.