Induction at 38+1

[PleaseDo999]

Likely to work? It's my first and I've just left a consultant appointment saying that she wants to induce me on Monday. They only do emergency inductions on weekends and no availability today.

Anyone any experience? I've heard my cervix might be closed, or that it can be excruciating to be induced.

Not sure what to believe anymore!

Hi PleaseDo. Same happening to me but in a fortnight (due to medical condition, mine not the baby). Will be 38+2. Am worried. Only heard horror stories about it being drawn out, interventions etc. Also being given steroids to mature the baby’s lungs - did you have this?

Hi. Why are you being induced, if you don’t mind me asking.
My baby had potential heart rate decelarations so I was induced. 24 hr gel and was then checked - no progress. 6 hr gel and then checked- no progress. I was 2cm dilated but I had been that on my first examination too, It was 2am but this point and I had been in the hospital for 2 days. I said I wanted to stop and wait until the morning to assess what should be done. I felt forcjing my body was a mistake.. it would just led to intervention etc, I went to bed shattered and very upset that nothing was Working. 2 hrs later I woke up as my waters broke. Baby born 17 hrs later on gas and air and no further intervention!

I meant to say I was 1cm dilated, so not enough that they would have been able to rupture my waters should I have allowed it.

Have they done en internal exanimation?

I was induced at 37 weeks im not going to lie mine wasn't the best experience and it was my third birth but a women i was in with went into labour with the first 6 hour propess ... so just because someone has a hard time of it doesn't mean you will.

Me it took 4 days waters broken drip on had to have ecgs during labour clips on babys head as his heart rate kept dropping , had to stand my full labour as contractions disappeared if i sat down.

contractions where excruciating and then my placenta got stuck for 6 hours just getting ready for surgery and a dr came in put her hand up twisted and pulled it out ... i ended up with a infection.

But your body will know what is the right thing to do ... my boy just wasn't ready to come xx

I was induced with my first as I was 42 weeks and nothing was happening. I had the pessary put in at about 10am, started getting cramps about 3pm and contractions kicked around 7pm. The contractions were very frequent and very intense (from the get go they were a minute and a half apart lasting 40 seconds). I managed to stay at home till midnight and by then I couldn’t take them anymore so went to the hospital only to be told I was 2cm dilated. I wanted to cry! I was checked again around 2am and was 4cm dialeted. I was supposed to be checked again at 5 am but by 4 I could feel I as pushing. Midwife didn’t believe me, had to beg her to check me (she kept saying she would check me at 5am) and when she did I was 9.5cm. They wheeled me to the labour ward straight away (I was being kept at the maternity ward) and DD was born an hour later. So no intervention and the labour was pretty straightforward but the contractions leading up to it were very intense. They were just as frequent at 2cm as they were at 9cm. I begged for an epidural but they wouldn’t give me one as I wasn’t on the labour ward. Oh, and I did have a sweep when I first got to the hospital (at 2cm) and I believe that helped to get things going. Good luck OP x

I was induced at 37+6, the next day after they took the pessary out they decided to just break my waters, the pessary has given some contractions but nothing that required much pain relief for me, they broke my waters at 9.20pm, I got nothing for a little while, by 11pm I was contracting, they checked if I was dilated at 11.40, I was 3cm(which I had been for the last 24 hours), they thought I wasn’t coping with the pain, went to get some pethidine, while they was looking I went to the toilet(I thought I needed to poo as they said I was nowhere near pushing), my DS was born at 11.57pm almost in the toilet, I realised when I was pushing that it was him and pulled the buzzer but they didn’t come until after so I caught him. He was fine, I was fine, no pain relief, no stitches and home 4 hours later. Lovely birth and I would do it again if I knew they was all like that.