Successful induction at 39weeks?

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I've been told I'll be being induced at 39 weeks due to medical reasons. I'm really scared about this leading to an emergency C-section if I can have an elective anyway.

How did everyone's induction go? I've heard so many horror stories that it all just terrifies me!

5pm Gel inserted
7pm Contractions started and water broke
1am Little fellow was born.

So a 6 hour labour start to finish. No pain relief. Would honestly rather that than having it drag on for days. Was intense but I managed.

I've had two inductions at 38 weeks. First one didn't really work. They inserted a pessary at 5pm nothing. The next day I felt pains for a few minutes and 15 minutes later he was born no pain relief no warnings at all he just popped out.

Second one they broke my waters at midnight, went on the drip at 4am didn't have time for pain relief he was out at 11.05am.
I didn't like the drip and would decline it in the future I felt it made things speed up to fast before i or the baby was ready to go through labour.

I had an induction at 37 weeks due to IUGR and was very successful, had 2 pessarys and then my waters were broken and labour started 30 minutes later, never needed the hormone drip and from water being broke to having baby in my arms was 12 hours, I didn't think it was a bad labour at all, only had gas and air and I'd say it all went straight forward :)

Pessary in, contractions started within the hour, 12 hours later they stopped. 2cm dilated and told as soon as there was room on the labour ward they'd break my waters, waited five days, waters broken at 1.30pm, syntocin drip, at 5pm 3cm dilated, 5.05pm 10cm.... Born at 6.35pm. Not without it's dramas, nearly had to have a section twice, but managed to get her out without.

Induced at 38+4 due to baby measuring "big". Got a sweep the previous week when baby was head down, lost mucus plug over the next few days and was getting contractions then everything stopped 2 days before I was induced. Gel in, examined 6 hours later when a midwife had realised baby decided to flip so had to have c-section.

My advice would be to get them to confirm baby is head down, the hospital I gave birth in does not scan before starting induction and once it was started I couldn't leave unless baby stayed head down for 48 hours.

I was told big baby and they wanted induce at 37 weeks or so.

declined that went straight for the c section at 39 weeks.

fine. Tougher recovery than the vaginal birth I had with my first, but I really didn’t want DC to come early, or the induction drugs