Did anyone have false labor that actually ended up resulting in dilation? Or have sex that actually induced labor? When I was about 36 weeks DH and I had sex (not trying to induce labor, just because we hadn't had sex in a while because of my PTL risk) and it sent me into false labor. I walked around the house and laid on the heating pad and took hot baths and all of that but my contractions stayed irregular. This went on for 3-4 hours. Right as I was getting ready to call the OB they stopped all together, I was relieved but was praying for some progress. 2 days later at my OB appt I had gone from 1cm to 3cm and 80% effaced, My water broke at 38 weeks and 1 day and when I got to the hospital I was 4cm and 90% and therefore qualified for an epidural as soon as they could get the tech in there (which took about 1 hour) but it also shortened my labor to 13 hours instead of about the 16 it would have been at the rate I was dialating. I don't really know what the point of this post is but I was just kind of curious as to what other peoples experiences where with labor induction methods?
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Honestly, walking helped me! I never thought it would, but it did!
DS was born on a Thursday. The morning before I had DS (I am talking 2 AM Wed,), I lost my mucous plug (I still wasn't dilated at that point though...I actually went to the hospital b/c I thought my water was leaking b/c I kept feeling gushes). Then Wed. night I went to a friend's house to walk. She lives in a development that is all hills. We walked all 3 sections twice. I was still losing my mucous plug all day too. When I got home, I started w/ contractions. By 11 PM, they were pretty much 5 mins apart (but some were a little farther apart than that).
By 2 AM there was no way I was going to fall asleep. We called L&D and they said to come in to be checked. I knew I wasn't going to be dilated much since I wasn't at all on Wed. morning. I was fingertip dilated. I still could have died. I was so upset. I was already scheduled to be induced the following Monday (which would have been 41 w 4d). They didn't know what the Dr. would want to do. They already had someone there w/ high blood pressure who HAD to be induced, so they said the Dr. would probably keep me too. The Dr. didn't come in until 9 AM (so I laid there from about 3 AM till 9 AM before I knew if they were keeping me or not)!! I was STILL only 1 cm even though i was having tons of contractions. So, the Dr. asked if I wanted to be induced and I agreed (what was the point of going home after I just laid there for 6 hours!).
I honestly thought I would just go to the hosptial and they would send me home with some meds to help me sleep!
I always think the same thing too. As I just said, I was already losing my MP, so labor was coming soon anyway!
Sex worked for me: 1 week before DS was born, we had sex, and I had false labor all day. Next appointment, I had progress (can't remember what it was, though.) 2 days later, sex again. Again - false labor and progress. Finally, we had sex again and I went into labor.
Of course, I was a week overdue at that point, and we were trying anything to start labor!