Any positive induction stories?

[FlamingLama]

I have been booked in for an induction and I am absolutely petrified. I watched a few birth vlogs about it on youtube and they were great in terms of the information provided and what the process is but all of them said the pain was a lot more intense than a spontaneous birth and the time it took was also painful. (my last birth was a few hours start to finish) The Dr I saw today said they often take 3 days from start to finish!!!!
I wanted to labour at home for as long as possible then go to the hospital to give birth. It feels like everything I had planned has gone out of the window and it is quite hard to adjust my expectations.
But as I say the fear of it all for me is massive too. I am scared of how much more painful it will be and how I will cope. The hormone drip sounds horrendous!
I had an epidural in the past and hated it so wanted to avoid that but again I feel that I can't rule that out now because of the change in everything. I am trying to re-write my birth plan so that I know what to do but I feel completely lost with it and I have been really tearful all day that it won't be the birth I wanted. I know i will feel better about it tomorrow and today's emotions are probably just a bit of a shock to the system but I don't know how to process it all and DP just doesn't understand how scared I am about it all.

🙋‍♀️ if I had the choice again, I'd go induction!
Had an induction with my first, went in at 9am on the Tuesday morning, started drugs at 11am, DD was born happy and healthy at 2.45am on the Wednesday (next day!) yes it was painful, but tbh after having a naturally started labour, I'd personally say the natural one was way way worse! It lasted longer, was more painful and over all a more stressful time for both me and my DH. Both my SIL were also both induced and have both said they didn't hate it, but they've only both had one so have no comparison to a natural yet.

I honestly think, a lot depends on your mind set. If you go in worried it's going to be awful, it will be regardless. If you go in with positive thoughts and just keep in mind that every minute, every pain, is 1 more closer to seeing your baby!

Good luck! And congratulations 🥳

Me!
It wasn't exactly fun and the drip is fucking painful but it all went well and no major issues

Preferred my fast birth but I really can't complain
6/7 of my NCT had some sort of induction (from sweep up to drip) all fine long term,

If you have the drip I recommend an epidural!!!!

thanks for your replies, they're really helpful. Just feeling very overwhelmed by it all right now so hearing first hand accounts from people makes a difference.

My family have basically told me to get over it/I am over reacting which has made it worse and just made me feel shit about myself.....I have been through labour before and so felt prepared. Now everything has changed and it has really scared me- feels like that is not allowed and my feelings are totally invalid.
I have had one thing after another with this pregnancy and it grinds you down, it goes without saying that my main priority is the safe delivery of the baby but that seems to cancel out my feelings on everything and I get told to stop over reacting/reading into things too much.

I think one of the main things is that with DD I spent most of my labour in the bath and it helped so much- they have said I will need close monitoring for this labour so that's all out the window. I hate the idea of being in pain on a ward with other people around. It makes me feel really exposed and vulnerable. I think my fear is of the unknown so I feel the more information I arm myself with, the more prepared I will be to manage it on the day.

I loved my induction!

I think your experience depends on a few factors. I was coming up to 41 weeks and heavily sprained my ankle and i was miserable, so they let me have an induction. However i was already 2cm when i got there was given some cervix gel around 11pm, they then popped my waters at around 6am after that I went from 3cm to 10cm in 45 minutes 🥵 which is apparently unheard of. My daughter was born in 2 pushes in under 10 minutes. I had a fab midwife who believed me when the doctor didnt and fought my corner in allowing me to push. My body was ready to go so didnt need pitocin or anything. Inductions cover a range of things it doesnt always mean the full works (like pitocin etc). Inductions get a bad rap because sometimes bodies arent ready to get baby out! But more than likely you will just need a nudge to get things going. You will be great, good luck its all worth it in the end!