I came in to triage on Sunday night because I had only felt my baby move a few times that day and wanted to get checked out. The criteria had met but then the midwife said the doctor recommended an induction because of how many weeks I am and being full term. I was 38 weeks and 4 days at that point. I'm a FTM, when I was asking the midwife questions she was getting a bit impatient with me and was saying that I don't know if I'm not going to feel movements again in the future and can't keep going to triage to be monitored since it's not 'sustainable'? So I decided to proceed with the induction even though I wasn't totally sure on the reasons but trusted that the docs had good reason to suggest it. They gave me a pessary which was supposed to ripen the cervix, it caused some very mild contractions, they took it out after 24 hours and I was 1cm dilated. So they decided to go ahead with the prostin gel and so far I've had 2 doses, 3mg out of the maximum 4 and it's not worked and I feel like I'm back to normal, no painful contractions or anything. They're talking about forcing my cervix to open mechanically so they can break my waters, I have no health problems like preeclampsia or diabetes or anything, the only reason for this induction was because I was worried about the baby's movements on Sunday. If all else fails I'll have to consider a c section but my iron levels are low so the risk of needing a transfusion is high. I want to go home and just wait until the baby and my body is ready. I can't stand being in this cramped antenatal ward.