When do they induce?

[Haddock73]

Unless there are complications or your waters break etc, do they induce when you're 42 weeks? At 42+1 is XH birthday, would prefer baby not to be born that day....is this is likely possibility? Am 40+4 atm.

Well it's up to you whether you're induced or not. Personally I would like to be induced because of certain risks but plenty of others choose to have baby monitored instead.

That being said- it depends on your local trust. Some are +12 days and others are +14. The thing with induction is for some people it can take days. For me I had my dd 26 hours after having the pessary but my waters had gone. From speaking to friends it can be quite different if waters are intact and you can sometimes have 24 hour pessaries inserted then be put on the drip and then obviously labour too, so I think you'd struggle to be able to predict when baby will appear.

I had an induction booked at 42 weeks but my midwife checked I was okay with that before booking it for me. In the end I was induced earlier than that because of reduced movement.

It depends, round here (Nottingham) they induce at +12, although obviously it's your choice whether you want induction.