For anyone still waiting/looking at induction
I posted a few days ago saying I was due to be induced due to broken waters
Saturday 10pm waters broke
Monitoring at Sunday 10am - nothing happening
Back in for monitoring and induction Sunday 10pm
Had a pessary put in at 1.30am Monday - I advise you to sleep as much as possible after this!
By 7am I was barely a cm and cervix still very long and posterior so pessary hadn't done much
Drip was started at 9.30am, we worked up very slowly. Their plan was to examine me 4 hours after getting to 4 contractions every 10 minutes. We kept almost getting there and seeing baby's heart rate dip or lose the monitoring so having to stop the drip, roll to my left and stay very still whilst they watched and waited.
By 5pm I was contacting every 2 minutes very strongly so had the epidural.
The tried to fit an internal monitor to baby's head at 7pm but couldn't mange it as I was still only 1-2cm
They started taking about going down to theatre and next options which really raised by blood pressure/heart beat
Lost baby's heartbeat on the monitor again at around 8.30pm - they tried the internal monitor or again and I was fully dilated! She just needed to move down the canal.
Baby born in 4 pushes at 9.58pm Monday
2nd degree tear but considering I spent half the day convinced I'd end in c section I was very pleased/relieved!
Hope this is helpful to anyone going through a long induction