The doctor has been around and told me that due to the baby not growing an me being considered term they need to make a plan to induce me. Baby is now head down (yay!) but his head is still very high. My cervix is not ripe so they have decided to start with gel. She told me that they had to push a planned induction to tomorrow as they were so busy on the ward and if they get to busy tonight they may not be able to induce me as that would be putting me at more risk than doing nothing as they wont have the staff to monitor me properly. So the plan is to insert the first lot of gels around 4pm today and assess every 6 hours. I am hoping that as I have had 2 vaginal births and even managed to get a posterior baby who come out forehead first out naturally that maybe the gel will be enough. Is that just wishful thinking do you think?
I told my midwife this morning that I was not happy with his movements and I wanted a ctg. for the first 20mins he was slow and seemed lethargic but after drinking some cold water he perked up slightly. I have told them that I want a repeat ctg shortly and they said they will do one after the gel is inserted!
Have any of you ladies had the gel? Did it make you dialate at all? If they are not 'too busy' I think they will either break my water tomorrow, give me the drip or do both. As this is my first induction I am pretty worried but just want my baby out so I can start fattening him up and know for sure he is ok. I will be talking to the nursing manager tomorrow if they say they are too busy to induce me as I think this is ridiculous and it is unfair on me and my baby. As you say, if I went into labour naturally they couldn't just turn me away!
Last edited by Jessikah27; September 18th, 2013 at 01:48 PM.
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