I’m being induced today with DC3. I’ve never been nervous for labour before, I had a very positive induction experience with my second (first i laboured naturally).
I’m 39+2 and was supposed to be induced at 40 weeks. Yesterday, me and my partner had a run in with someone not very pleasant in a car park. We didn’t realise this man had been in the shop we were in kicking off at people and when he nearly reversed (at speed) into my car my partner shouted that there’s a baby in the car (he nearly hit the side my 17month old was on). This man then revered and tried to run my partner over in his huge van, luckily he got out the way in time , i had a full blown panic attack and was already going into hospital to have my bp checked anyway, but when I was there even though it was hours later my pulse rate still wouldn’t come down from being 130-150. I had an ECG which was fine but due to blood pressure and heart rate concerns they thought it was best to move the induction forward, which is fine by me.
I’ve been up all night worrying, I was calm but the anxiety of yesterday’s events has thrown my calmness completely off and I’m gutted because I don’t want to be all tense.
I’m going to get a nice bath before going in and I have some calm reading material. If anyone has any recommendation for keeping calm that would be a great help!