Scared of having to have an induction. What was your experience??

[Yael]

Kel - when the midwife said she stopped seeing so many OP babies once she stopped doing ARM, did she mean that these babies were in the position before hand (as i believe like 90% of OP turn before or during labour), or they were the right way and then turned OP?

Just in my case i was contracting for about 10 hours before the ARM, and the baby was the right way around. I believe he turned around 10 hours after this, but would the ARM have had anything to do with it? And with him getting stuck, or was that a result of being OP only?

Also, the wireless monitors that they had on me, are they CTG? I think next time i will refuse the CTG, it didn't prove much to me (i knew i was having contraction), and the intermitent doppler i had from the 2nd midwife onwards was just as reassuring that the baby wasn't in distress anyway.


To the opening poster, i had an induction do to very low fluid levels at 10 days overdue. I refused to drip (mainly cos of the stories i heard about it being so painful that you would need an epidural, one thing i def. did not want), and just had my waters broken instead. I believe it was a lot gentler induction (although i would more call it agumentation as i had regular contractions that were around 15 mins apart for around 10 hours before going to hospital). I think my waters would have broken that day or the next, but my dr had already given me 3 extra days and he felt it wasn't wise to continue on.

Although my labour in hospital went a lot longer due to no drip, it was manageable for the most part (nothing until 7cm, when i had gas, and morphine at 9.5 when my the baby turned from the right position into being posterior). If i had to have an induction again, i would for sure do it the way i did also. I had no gels as i was already almost 4cm that morning (i was 3cm on the friday before, when i was booked in), so can't comment on them. There are options for making inductions a bit gentler.. but i would say this, no matter if i was having a full on induction or not, being scared will slow your labour down. It might be good to read up a bit (there are a few threads about what to expect - i'll try to find them), because going in informed and calm will help you.

Thats just my opinion/experience, hope it helps