I tried everything under the sun - dtd, gutter walking, s&s, acupuncture, reflexology, nipple massage. At 42 wks DS was still only 3/5, not even close to engaged.

But, the day before my induction was scheduled I saw a hypnotherapist/guru who helped me to visualise my induction not happening.

In the end I was sitting in the hospital room (we'd sent the doctor with his water breaking device out of the room so we could talk) and I did another last ditch nipple massage and BAM labour. You could see on the CTG I was having BH tightenings every 10 mins, and I did less than 2 mins of nipple massage and I got a massive contraction (enough to dip bubs' heart rate). After that I was having mildly painful contractions every4-5 mins, The hospital staff were not convinced that I was in labour. After checking that the fluid was ok they rebooked the induction for the following day - but 13 hours later DS was born 2 weeks late exactly!

It was a wonderful, wonderful birthing experience.