Hi Jordie,

First of all, how exciting!! (and scary too!) - Rudy induced me me too I went in on the tuesday afternoon (20.01.09) at 2.30pm had the first of lot gels inserted at 3pm and monitored for an hour. Was told to rest up and relax (yeah right!) - Anyway, started with a few slight contractions, nothing to write home about. At 9pm another lot of gels were inserted and monitored again for another hour - cramps were starting to get a bit more intense but nothing i couldn't breathe through - i was told to get some sleep as waters would be broken at 8am the next morning and drip started(Wednesday 21 Jan 09) - Anyway, i guess my DD had other plans, cause my waters broke on their own at 1.00am and i was in labour for 7 hours with DD born at 8.00am on 21.109! So i never had the drip or had my waters broken, my body did it on its own and i had no pain relief and birthed vaginally (no tears yaay!) with no assistance other than Rudy telling me when to stop pushing!. - As it was my first pregnancy i cant compare it to going into labour naturally, but i can say mine was a positive induction and not a "horrendous cascade of intervention".

Goodluck! - Rudy will look after you, he was FANTASTIC