Induction for Oligohydramnios

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Hi all, 36w ish at the moment and due to low amniotic fluid I have an induction booked in a few days when I'll be 37w.There goes my spontaneous labour and midwife birthing suite dreams 😒

Was just wondering if anyone had any experiences or advice (ideally positive!) as still trying to wrap my head around it. Tried to call my midwife on Friday but I'm in London and with strikes on I don't expect to hear from them beforehand I don't think, so trying not to Google and scare myself ha.

I suffered pprom at 22 weeks so throughout the rest of the pregnancy I had low amniotic fluid. I delivered my baby girl at 37 weeks and everything was fine, had an induced labour and it wasn't any different to my first birth. I was probably in active labour for about 5 hours

I just want to add that the baby was fine too. The low fluid did not have any effect on her

@lillie23 thank you, anxious FTM here so great to know it had no ill effects! Did you have a pessary for induction? Did they use a drip?

I had two pessary's which didn't work much. Then I had my waters broken and was put on the hormone drip which took about 5 hours

Bump, anyone else?

Hi there,

I was induced at 38 weeks with my first. It was a long slow process (4 days for me!) so all I’d say is there’s no guarantee how quickly or easily you’ll respond. Pessary didn’t do much for me so I ended up having ARM and then drip + assisted delivery. Whilst it wasn’t a perfect birth and I found the drip painful/exhausting/ended up with a bad tear it was still in its own messy way incredible. You’ll get through it!

my only wish looking back was that I’d had an epidural sooner rather than later as I had it quite late on and do think it affected my ability to push at the end.

good luck x

I had this. Induced with pessary then ?ARM. All over in a few hours, I remember there was a sorry of gush as DS was delivered, thinking - there's the amniotic fluid!
He's a healthy, sporty young man now!