Hi Ladies,
I've been lurking for quite sometime. I was due Sept 20th and I'm scheduled for an induction this Sunday night (41wks,2days). I am so looking forward to being a mom and joining you on this board. After three previous pregnancy losses, I am just praying I can bring my little man into the world safely.
So I ask- can you share your induction stories? I am just looking to know what to expect, good or bad. Also, I'll take any advice you have to offer.
Thanks,
Kristy
Re: Intro and call for help regarding induction.
DD1 Feb 2010
DD2 Sept 2011
So here is my timeline:
7am: Admitted. Checked and I was 2cm dialated and completely thinned out. This was another reason why I got induced. They say if you are at least progressed a good amount that induction is a bit easier.
8am: Pitocin started on a very low dose. I didn't eat beforehand so my midwife wanted me to eat a small meal before uping the dose.
8am-2pm: Labored with no pain. Light contractions but not painful.
2pm: Midwife broke my water and contraction started strong and painful right away.
2pm-4pm: Active labor. Severe pain. Asked for epidural. Checked and I was barely at 5cm.
4pm: Epidural was given. Sweet relief.
4pm-5pm: I was able to nap a bit once I had the epidural.
5pm: Nurse went to check my catheder and realized I had my bloody show so she checked me and said I was at 9cm! I went from 5cm to 9cm in one hour! She called my doctor and I started pushing.
5pm-7pm: Pushing. This was the hardest part since I couldn't feel anything. I could feel lots of pressure though.
7:08pm: Alec was born! He was 7lbs 4oz and 19 inches long.
All in all the induction was not as bad as I thought it would be. Since I'm a FTM I can't say if being induced makes the labor more difficult but I'm going to say yes. The contractions came on so hard and painful once my water was broken. Some advice is to have a small meal before you head to the hospital. I had scrambled eggs and toast. Light meal but enough to coat your stomach. I had such bad heartburn while pushing so it was really uncomfortable. Just try to relax and as hard as it will be try to enjoy yourself! It went by so fast for me and it kind of makes me sad.
Good luck!
Obviously, everyone's experience is different, but not every induction is a horrible experience!
I was induced at 40w 3 days. My OB doesn't let her patients go past 41 weeks and after a borderline NST we decided to go for the induction. I was scared to death of it but it didn't end up being that awful. It did result in a beautiful, healthy baby so it was all worth it
I'll give you the short version.
We checked in around 7am and by 8am the nurses already had orders from my doctor to have the OB resident insert a foley bulb to get my cervix to dilate. The foley bulb inflates gradually and will fall out on it's own once you've reached 4cm.
The foley bulb insertion was painless even though they said it would be crampy. I had no issue with it. Once that was done with, they started the Pitocin. The combination of the two made my stomach revolt. I spent the next hour in the bathroom with the worst diarrhea cramps of my life. But it ended up being a good thing ..TMI but it cleaned me out. No pooping during labor for me ;-)
By 10am, the contractions were getting painful. The hard thing about the foley bulb and the Pit is that there's really no pattern to the contractions so what you get are contractions that don't let up. I was already asking for the epidural at that point but they don't really want you to get it until your labor is in a good pattern. So..they gave me some medicine that took the edge off. Good stuff and I was able to hold out until the foley bulb fell out at 4cm.
That was probably around...2pm maybe? At that point I was able to get the epidural which was the BEST thing of my life. Contractions were in a good strong pattern at that point. With the epi, I was comfortable for a few hours but by around 6pm my doctor determined the baby was sunny side up so we needed to turn him.
She put me in this horribly contorted position. I had to lay on my left side and scrunch up in a fetal type position. Once they put me in that position I felt major pressure/pain that the epidural did not alleviate oddly. The worst part of that was I had to stay like that for hours. And my baby's HR would decel if I laid on my right side...so it was a long haul in that position.
After a few hours of that and a few redoses of the epidural, it was pretty obvious that my epidural was proving to be ineffective. Luckily, I kept making progress but I was in total misery. By 8pm I spiked a fever which made me feel even worse. They put the oxygen on since baby was showing a little bit of distress.
By 10pm it was time to push. That horrible pressure feeling I'd been having went into overdrive and you just can't help but push. I practiced pushing with the nurses for 30 minutes. My doctor arrived and 10:30 and my son was delivered at 11pm. Luckily that contorted position she put me in worked in turning him.
My labor was 16 hours and successful. While extremely painful, and despite being convinced we were one and done after that -I've already forgotten the pain. It took about a week LOL. But it's true what they say, you do forget. Thankfully.
Also, they found that my son's cord was being compressed so it was a blessing that we chose to induce otherwise we might not have had such a happy ending. Good luck to you on Sunday!
BFP#2 11.13.11| diag@13wks T21/Cystic Hygroma/Hydrops | D&C 1.24.12
BFP#3 12.13.12| HR 174 | Materni21 - All Chromosomes Normal! | EDD 8.25.13
Me:27, DH:28 - DX: MFI, varicocele repair Nov 2011
Post-Op SA: Count- 15 million, Motility- 75%, Morphology- 3%
IVF with ICSI - Stimming 10/4/12 - 10/13/12, Lupron Trigger
ER 10/18/12, 12 eggs retrieved, 8 mature, 5 fertilized
5 day transfer 10/23/12, 3 frosties
Beta #1 11/5/12: 453, Beta #2 11/7/12: 1,013, DD born 7/19/13
9/2/13, 10:30pm water breaks in bed.
12am ish 9/3 admitted to hospital. 1cm (barely) dilated, not effaced at all. They have me walk for hour to see of that will get things going - it didn't.
3am pitocin in. I was able to sleep a bit, thankfully. And have chips and sips.
6:30 full on labor. All in my back. My OB checks me at 7 and I'm only 2cm but 80% effaced.
8:30 epi in (I held out as long as I could).
9 am epi bolused b/c only working on one side. This worked and I got some more sleep
11am epi wore off on my right again. Bolused again but didn't work.
11:45 I'm at 9.5 cm fully effaced and the head is low. Nurse tells me we can either re position the epi, or have a baby. We decide to have a baby.
12pm start pushing (actually had to stop for a bit b/c my OB wasn't there). Four - five contractions later, Andrew Louis was born at 12:46pm.
I was lucky thy things moved quickly, good luck to you and your LO!!