Please share your positive induction stories...

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Hi there. I'm 37+4 and was admitted to hospital over the weekend for a night with suspected pre-eclampsia. I'm the end they decided its gestational hypertension. Thankfully they let me home and I'm back at Daycare twice a week for monitoring.

Anyway, the doc seemed fairly certain that they'd end up inducing me at some point. Im going to do some more researching on inductions now to understand as much as possible but I've heard some horror stories. So - to balance this off, I hoped you could share your stories of inductions that weren't horrendous...

Thanks so much...

My induction wasn't awful but it wasn't positive either, I went in on the Monday for 9am and they did an internal, I wasn't even a tiny bit dilated so they put in the first pessary I had to lay down for an hour after the hour I could walk about ect id started having mild contractions after 6 hours I had another internal as things were slowly progressing they used another pessary after about another hour the contractions were painful and regular after 3 hours the mw came to check how I was progressing and was going to break waters if she could, but as she was doing her checks they went on there own ay that point I was about 3 cm I carried on in labour till about 2:30am and id only progressed to5cm and wasn't getting any further at that point ds heart rate was dropping at each contraction so it was decided emcs was best, so I was put to sleep ds was
born At 3:27am 8lb1, even though it didn't end well the actual induction was fine, midwives were all really nice the only thing I would advise is take magazines, MP3 player ect as it gets very boring waiting around. X

Mine was great but I was 42 weeks with 3rd baby. Prostin at 9 and 3. Gentle labour about 8. 5 cm and waters broken at 930. Baby born at 950 with 2 pushes.

My induction was great :-) I went in at 8am, was already 3cm dilated but not in labour (was 42 weeks at this point). They broke my water, waited 2 hours but nothing happened. Drip started about 1.15, nothing until 2.45 - then contractions started and DD2 was born 45 minutes later. Home by 8pm.

My induction for fairly straightforward:) had pesary around tea time on the Wednesday and put on monitors, by next day around lunch time I had progressed enough to be taken down to labour ward and have my waters broken and was put on drip. Around tea time went into established labour and given gas and air and my little girl was born just after midnight on the Friday.

As said before there is a lot of hanging around so bring enough to keep you occupied for a few hours as your OH can't stay after visiting hours if your not yet in labour. They say that the majority if people end up with an epidural when being induced and I definately felt as if the midwifes we're trying to push me in that direction. The drip you are out on to encourage contractions does make them very intense. But although it was really painful I managed without and I definatley think it prevented me from ending up with a c-section.

Good luck with everything!! :) xx

Mine wasn't too bad, wasn't brilliant either though.
I had the pessary early morning, I think it was about 8.30. That took a couple of hours to get going, then they broke my waters (that bit was the most painful bit). As soon as my waters went the contractions were coming thick and fast so it was a bit scary. DS was born the next morning at 7.16 so just under 12 hours in total.

I would recommend you rest and sleep as much as you can during induction. I didn't (too excited) and I was knackered by the time it got going.

Good luck!

Mine was completely fine.

I started having contractions as soon as they did the pessary. Whole thing was 12 hours from that moment til baby was born - 3 hour actual labour. Was really glad to be in hospital throughout as felt really safe and spared travelling with contractions. Pain was just normal - didn't have drip so that was probably why. Was fine with just gas and air.

Really want to be induced again but haven't come up with a good reason. Hoping that will let me have 'social induction' at 39 week (dd was induced at 38 weeks) it was such a good experience!

Mine was great, had it at 37 wks and no labour signs or dialation whatsoever. Had a pessary at 11am, waiting around, had walk around hospital grounds to get things moving, then up and doen stairs, labour started at 5pm, had my twin babies at 8pm. Home the next day. Was really worried too as heard such horror stories but it was absolutely fine. Good luck x (ps I did have an epidural and therefore a pain free birth however, can't recommend enough).

Ladies - thanks so much for your stories. They make me feel loads better about things.

My head was pretty sorted about labour before the weekend with a "what will be, will be" philosophy but the hospital stay and induction talk did freak me a bit. I will resort to plan A and chill out about things again!