Have you had the gel on the cervix before an induction? Booked in for next week

[Jaycee]

I was induced with the gels at 3pm which started period type pain. At the time of the first application I was around 1cm dialated. At 9pm I had a second lot inserted which didn't do much but at 1am I started getting really painful contractions, well actually one long contraction that never really stopped! I couldn't deal with no break in contractions so opted for an epidural, but by the time they got the epi in it was 3am and I was already 10cm dialated, so useless really. An hour later, at exactly 4am DS was born with the help of the vacuum. My labour was recorded as 2 hours 6 minutes, but it was really 3 hours.

So no other induction methods apart from the gel were used, but I'll do anything to avoid it again. Too hard and too fast for me, and an assisted delivery too.

So no

[Mum2Willie]

Gracious G - I was induced with first bubs - waters broken and then drip - and it was hard and fast and had vontouse delivery - sounding much like yours. So probably won't be much different this time, I guess!!! Wow - looking forward to that!

[kawazuki]

i had 2 doses of the gels, and required no further assistance, 18 hours later my little girl was there