Hello all.
Im currently in hospital at 39 weeks and 4 days pregnant. Last year we lost our boy at 7 weeks old in NICU due to complications and giving birth at 25 weeks through emergency c-section therefore cannot be induced with medication due to the risk of my uterus rupturing. On Wednesday I had the ballon in for 24 hours which started contractions and managed to get me to a point where they will be able to break my waters. However after the ballon was taken out all contractions stopped instantly and I was told I have to wait on this this ward and they’ve put on a waiting list to get my waters broke due to lack of space in labour ward, I am now on day 4 and this has come as a bit of a shock to us as we may have choose a different route if we knew it was going to be like this. We now feel like it would have been better to just stay at home and be a lot more mobile rather than starting the induction process at all, I had quite a traumatic 2 months last year on this ward on strict bed rest consistently having mass bleeds and blood transfusions to keep me and baby going. That was also a mess as they was fully aware he was breach and that my waters had gone 24hrs beforehand and that I needed a c-section yet continued to let me have contractions to the point I was prolapsing the cord on the antenatal ward screaming in agony. So as you could imagine this isn’t the ideal place for me mentally and I feel like I’m just getting fobbed off again until something goes wrong.
Does anyone have any idea how long the wait could be? He’s definitely a larger baby according to all his growth scans so I’m getting a bit worried now as I know birthing risks increase also. Observations seem fine and I sound like I’m asking for special treatment I know but the NHS failed our first 2 babies, I refuse to let this happen again 😥