Hi

I was induced 10 days early due to high blood pressure. From the time they inserted the gel to the time my daughter was born was 47 hours.

Having the drip made the contractions come on very fast and painful and after a full day i was still only 1 cm. My husband told the doctor to turn off the drip on day one as i had not had any sleep the night before. They put the drip up again first thing on day 2 and the same thing happened again, it took another 6 hours to get to 5 cm. Eventually i had an epi and at 6pm on day 2 was ready to push. After 1 hour of pushing and the suction my daughter was born with only slight tearing ( i pushed to hard).

Next time i really hope to go without the induction, would prefer for nature to take its course (problems prevaling).

Hope this helps and does not scare you.

Suzi