Induction

[Tobily]

As SamanthaP said, the rate of caesarean in first time induced mums is horrendous and if you want to avoid a c/s, avoiding an unnecessary induction is crucial.

My body simply was not ready - 3 days before the induction my cervix was not ready however they still induced me a few days later without checking to see if my cervix was even ready. I should have said something then. I was also only 10 days over - it seems like a lifetime but really, the long term effects and consequences as Samantha mentioned are worth a few extra days.

This reminds me of a client I had a couple of weeks ago. Her story really shows how much and how quickly things can change.
At 10 days over the hospital wanted to induce her. Her baby wasn't engaged at all, her cervix was a fingertip dilated "at a stretch" according to a midwife. The hospital was convinced she wasn't going to go into labour before their "deadline" of 14 days past EDD. She refused the induction, agreed to some monitoring as tanstar mentioned, and went into labour on her own 2 days later - had a 3.5 hour labour with her first baby. We concluded her body knew damn well what it was doing

Things can change just like that at the end, that's what makes it so damn frustrating to hear women being told their bodies are never going to go into labour and they need to be induced.