Stop start induction. Is the hospital forgetting about me? 4 days in.

[BabyTalbot1]

My induction started on Mondah at 37 weeks due to some high readings of pressure in the umbilical cord and slowing down of growth. Although the baby has put weight on.

Monday: I had the pessary at 1pm - it lowered my cervix.
Tuesday: Prostin gel at 1pm - it started contractions and moved my cervix forward which slowly started to open.
Wednesday: I was meant to have the second dose of prostin gel 6 hours after the first but because I was contracting every 10 minutes they wanted to see if I would continue naturally. We agreed to reassess at 1am - it never happened. Contractions died down. Second gel was inserted at 11 am, 20 hours after the first dose. Contractions started up again and I was having 2 in 10 minutes. Cervix was open enough to carry out a sweep but not break my waters. At midnight, midwife told me the next option is a C-section if I agree to it, it will happen in the next 24 hours. I agreed to go ahead with it.
Thursday: The consultant said no to the C-section and she will try and break my waters instead. I never saw her again.

The is a heredity condition in my family that we do not feel contractions. It has been hard to get staff to believe me and when they see the contractions on the monitor and see I am not flinching or aware that it ishappening, they can't get their head around it.

I feel like I have been left to it, with no answer of what is happening next. If I was given the prostin gel closer together like it is meant to, I feel like my continuous contractions would have brought of dilation enough to break my waters.

Feel really deflated. I would prefer a natural birth, but it looks like I will be forced to have a C-section. Baby is happy and safe and all observation have been great for him/her.

Push to be checked, keep buzzing until someone examines you and ask whenever they next come in for monitoring. I was induced, had the pessary early hours Monday, 6 hr gel Tues morn, another Tues afternoon and went in to labour Tues night. She was born on the early Weds morning. Speak up and voice your concerns, don't let them just leave you so you're ending up with no choice but to have a csection. They shouldn't have left so long between gels!

Sorry for all of the typos. The hospital internet went and then it got posted before I could proofread....also been a tiring week 🤦‍♀️

@CustardGoodJamGoodMeatGood thank you for your reply. You are right, I feel like I am being left until I have no choice but have a C-section. They are doing midwife handover now and I have asked can we redo the gels and correctly this time. Waiting for doctor handover at half past 8 to get an answer. As this rate, I will force a doppler and growth scan and go home if they are okay!

@TeddyBeans tagged you so you could read my experience so far! Thank you for your reply in the due March thread 💕

Have you had any update yet? I think it's a good choice asking for the gels again, there's a reason why they wanted to induce you so they should have done it correctly and not just left you. Hopefully they can break your waters for you which should speed things up, my labour stopped progressing and she was born 3 hpurs after the broke my waters. Fingeds crosssed things get moving for you.

@CustardGoodJamGoodMeatGood I have just had it with the lead midwife. I am still on the list to have my waters broken. It will most likely be tomorrow. I questioned about restarting the gel and she said it depends on which doctor you ask. Some will not repeat it and others will. But I will stress that I had them 20 hours apart and not 6 like I was meant to. I completely understand that if I can dilate and go into active labour, I still might need a C-section. But I want it as the complete last option. Not because the staff, unfortunately, did not have the time or availability to keep my induction on the right time frame of prescribing medication.

I understand that emergencies happen and priorities push you down the list. I accept that. But I am struggling with the mixed messages I am getting.