Hello everyone.
Its my first baby, I'm 41 + 5 today, been having irregular contractions and pressure for weeks, baby 3/5ths engaged since 36 weeks. 2 stretch and sweeps and lost my mucus plug about 10 days ago.
Yesterday I went into hospital to be induced via the outpatient care team (low risk pregnancy) which means they'd give me a pessary and then send me home and wait 24h for it to work.
My appointment was at 10.30 but wasn't seen until 12, was then on a monitor and left for over an hour when the guidelines are 20-30 mins, finally examined to be told that actually my body has done a lot of the hard work already and they could progress to simply breaking my waters. Yippee I thought! Midwife then proceeded to say I'd have to go home and would receive a call in the next 24h to let me know when I could come back to have my waters broken (I don't get why they couldn't just do it then? I guess they were too busy) so waited another hour to be discharged, by this point I was starving, having been told it would be a 2h max appointment, it actually lasted almost 5.
That was yesterday and today I still haven't heard anything about when I'll be going in. Whats more, the midwife said when I go in to have my waters broken they'll probably send me home again afterwards. The hospital is a 45 min / £30 taxi ride each time and the costs are mounting.
Just feeling left in limbo and seriously fed up and uncomfortable. I keep crying because I am just so done with being pregnant and I can feel myself getting stressed out. AIBU?