POSITIVE Induction Birth Story-longish

[OceanPrincess]

Thank you for sharing your story! It really is lovely to read such a positive induction experience.

[Ryatha]

Thanks for adding you're story, it was great to hear of one going so well.

Congratulations!

[myson]

thanks for sharing, i will be back to read it again and again. good to read a positive story.

i too am Insulin dep. and looking at an almost inevitable induction. hope it goes just as well for me.

[Toomanytoomany]

Thank you for posting that - sometimes inductions *are* necessary and it is troubling when all women hear are the horror stories.

My third labour, an induction, was in some ways my best labour.

I had to travel in to a major hospital the night before, and the OB did a stretch and sweep at about 4pm. I had a bloody show, and was quite uncomfortable, but nothing really happened.

In the morning when they woke me at 5am for an early breakfast, I was feeling quite uncomfortable and crampy. A couple of hours later when I had my waters broken, I was about 4cm already, and it felt like I was in gentle labour.

I had a wonderful midwife then come and look after me. They put in the drip, with "the tiniest sniff of syntocinon" and labour began in earnest, but it wasn't painful. In fact it felt downright pleasurable. I spent most of it swaying and holding on to my dh - we must have looked like we were doing an odd sort of a dance around the birth suite

When contractions started to get much more intense a couple of hours later, the midwife suggested she do an internal to see where I was, as she suspected I was going to have the baby soon. I laughed at that and said, no way, I'm not in anywhere near enough pain yet.

She did an exam and I was about 8, with a bit of a cevical lip. I remembered what I'd read and got on my hands and knees with my bum in the air to get the pressure of the baby's head off my cervix.

Then all of a sudden I had two or three quite painful contractions, and without pushing, the baby just came out, surprising the heck out of all of us!!! The OB didn't have time to get in and see what was going on, he arrived when the baby was put to my breast and the midwife was cleaning me up

I must admit I was in a little shock afterwards because of how sudden the actual delivery was. The whole labour was about five hours from my waters breaking.

[Sterla]

Thank you for sharing your positive induction experiences gill77 and Toomanytoomany!!! It's so nice to hear a good story for once!