Being induced tomorrow... tell me your experiences please

[Doodles9]

Hi... I’m 39+6 and booked in to be induced tomorrow. I’m a mixture of excited and nervous. I have limited knowledge of what to expect as the the induction was on the back of some reduced movements and checks with my maternity day unit... I was hoping for some insight into experiences of being induced - the good and the bad, especially in covid times! TIA

I had two pessaries, 9am and then a second a few hours later. I would say it took 12 hours from first one to starting labour. From then it was a very quick, intense labour and she was born at 3am. I did not tear as much as my first, natural labour. I was upset at being induced, but had to remind myself it's for babies health. Good luck, at least you'll know when to go into hospital.

I had a cook catheter which made me go from 0 to 3 CMS over night, they then ruptured the membranes and started the drip and hour later, I felt no pain but requested a Epi nice and early so I wouldn't get to a stage where I'm in extreme pain and need to wait for it...

45 mins after the drip started my daughter was born in a beautiful and uneventful birth.

I was admitted to ward at 39+2 with high bp. Pessary given at 39+3, contractions started but tailed off. Given another at 39+ 4 and the same happened. Taken to delivery suite at 39+6, started on hormone drip and waters broken, drip made me vomit and the contractions were super intense (much worse than natural onset). Got high off my ass on G&A and was telling my dh to get the monkeys out of the room (yes, bonkers lol). Midwife talked me in to epidural, things were much calmer after that and they increased the hormone drip to max. Baby became distressed so they used vontouse to get her out faster, cord round neck so needed oxygen before I got to see her (dh said she was blue). 7hr 38mins from waters breaking. The epidural wore off enough for me to be up walking within an hour of delivery but I was kept in for monitoring for 24hr, as born late at night that meant 2 nights so 6 nights in total. I swore not to volunteer for induction again, had 2 natural vb's since and an elcs. I would go CS rather than induction if labor didn't start this time because of risk of scar rupture anyway.

Good luck with your induction.

Both of mine were induced on the drip, both were horrendous. Second was back to back and the consultant turned her manually. I got an epidural with both but it was far too late with my second, I was literally screaming in pain. Forceps with both, ended up in theatre with my second after she was born as I had a buttonhole tear.

I’ve always been terrified of an induction since going into labour naturally with my first. Contractions stopped at 10cm and I given the hormone drip to get them going again and i hated it. When I was having my 2nd I had to be induced due to high blood pressure. I was dreading it but it was actually a pleasant experience. I had the pessary, and a few hours later felt my first little pain. DS was born within 3 hours of that pain! No need for the hormone drip (or waiting 24 hours for them to break my waters!).
I’m booked in for an induction a week today is this baby hasn’t made an appearance so I’m hoping for a similar experience.

Good luck!

I have always been terrified due to hearing lots of bad experiences so here is mine:

Was admitted and examined and estimated to be 1 cm. given the 24 hr pessary. Was monitored every 6 hr and they could see tightenings but I couldn't feel them.

After 24 hours examined again and at magic 2cm so they said no need for the gel and I could go to the labour ward to have my Waters broken. However 7 hour wait due to it being too busy.

Got to labour ward, my waters were broken easily with no pain and monitoring started again. However my baby started moving too much and they couldn't find a baseline heartbeat - too erratic so I was sent for a c-section.

So my induction was pain free atleast, involved lots of waiting around and involved a very unexpected c-section