I'm getting induced on Thursday morning 6am. What should i expect?

Question

If you have any stories from personal experience or what should i expect please share. How early should i show up...all that good stuff. Im really nervous now because either way i know ill be in labor this week....even though ive been dying to go into labor lol.
ill be 40 weeks and 4 days. This is if i make it until thursday...

yeah my friend had an induction, she went in at 7 and had the baby at 2:30, so i just wanted to see other peoples experiences. :)

i was 80% effaced, and 2cm dilated today, so hopefully ill be good to go thursday :)

Answer 1

CONGRATS!!!

They should tell you what time to be there and whether or not you need to stop eating at any certain point the night before. Generally speaking, being induced means that you will spend some time waiting for the drugs to actually start working. They start you out at a small amount and increase it until you start to have contraction. This can be a long process. So even though you may not be able to concentrate, bring things to keep your mind busy. Just think, you will get to kiss your babies little cheeks this week!

Best of luck!
Missy

Answer 2

Hopefully you'll go into labor before then! :)

If you're scheduled at 6, show up a little bit early if you want, but don't show up late. Shift change starts at 7, and they will need to get you settled before then.

When you get there, they will want to monitor the baby, get you an IV started, ask you a bunch of admission questions and then get the pitocin started, or, break your water, or both. With the pitocin, they start you off on a really low dose and then every 15-30 minutes increase your dose, until you're finally in a good labor pattern, which means contracting every 2-3 minutes (from start of one to the start of next), lasting 60-90 seconds, and you're really working hard through them.

Be forewarned, getting to 4 centimeters is often the longest part if you start out closed or only 1-2cm and have a thicker cervix (less than 75% effaced). But usually once you make it to 4cm, things are a little more predictable, and they expect to see about a 1cm change per hour if this is your first baby. Subsequent babies can be really unpredictable, but generally come much faster.

If you are planning on an epidural, most places will give it to you as soon as you really need it, and don't force you to wait until you're a certain number of centimeters. It's more important what kind of labor pattern you are in rather than how far dilated. And since you're being induced, if labor should slow from getting it "too early" they will be managing you with pit anyway.

If you're not planning on an epidural and trying for no pain relief, make sure you have a lot of help in your "bag of tricks". Bring a rice filled sock to warm in the microwave, freeze some oranges and bring in a little lunch cooler to use as cold massage balls. Ask the nurse for a birthing ball to sit and bounce on, and have your nurse show your partner how to use counterpressure on your back, hip squeezes, etc.

Also, it should be noted that if your cervix isn't ripe, they probably would have scheduled you for the night before, because those medications take many hours to take effect, and sometimes you need multiple doses. Many women expect to have a baby within 12 hours of starting an induction process, but sometimes, with ripening, it can take up to 3-4 days! So just be aware.

Good luck to you!

Answer 3

My first labor was induced due to low amniotic fluid. Just be there on time and get ready to be hooked up to all sorts of monitors. Since you will be going through "artificial labor" they will want to keep track of your contractions and how well the baby is tolerating labor. You will also have an IV and possibly a catheter.

For my induction I had to pee using a bedpan and eventually (after the epidural was in place) they gave me a catheter.

Induced labor usually starts pretty quickly without any buildup so be prepared for more intense painful contractions.

There's no way to tell how your induced labor will progress. For some women it takes 10 hours and for others it goes for days. In my personal experience, my labor stalled after 9 hours of induction. My cervix would not dilate past 5 cm and so my doctor advised a c-section. Looking back I wish I had held out longer. My son was doing fine, no fetal distress. I think they were just tired of waiting. My c-section was major and there was a long recovery.

Hope all goes well for you. Congrats!

Answer 4

Well I just got induced Tuesday heres what I went through, First if they want to insert cervidal (a pill to dialate ur cerix more) or a folley balloon (same thing) they will do that first which doesnt hurt just uncomfortable, that will stay in for a few hours and when they take it out you will be 4 cms dialated, they give you pain meds if you ask for it which i would suggest there great, your Dr would have told you already if he was going to insert either of those if not you should go to the hospital early in the morning i got induced at 5am they started the pitocin IV (to start contractions) and got an epidural right afterwards so i didnt feel any contractions the whole time (I recommend it!) (i had him at 7:30 that night with 2hours of pushing ending in a c-section) then they just check you about every hour to see how far dialated you are then when u get to 10cm you push, its really simple. you can e-mail me if u have anymore questions since i just had an induction done, i know its scary n nerve wrecking! lol - [e-mail]

Answer 5

,Good luck!
I was enduced and it was not fun, they tried one drug through IV that didn't work then they tried an other that was placed inside the vagina and there was a chance it could slip out if I stood up so once that went in I wasn't allowed to get out of bed at all. They strapped all kinds of monitors around my belly so moving was difficult. All this started Thursday morning. I didn't have my son until Friday night, so 2 days of lying in the same position, not being able to take a shower and no eating, all I could have were ice chips or apple juice. While I was there complaining they mentioned there was a woman next door that had been there for 4 days. So take tons of stuff to do.
On the other hand though, my friend that was pregnant at the same time I was, got induced and she had her daughter about 3 hours later.

Answer 6

it surely relies upon on what sort of drugs they bring about you with. I had my lady toddler 3 weeks in the past, and had to be triggered via fact i would not dilate very immediately and my water became into leaking. some females react in yet in a diverse way. i became into on Pitocin and that i became into given doses of Nubain which helped take the sting off of the soreness, then 14 hours later i became into given an epidural via fact by utilising then, the soreness have been given way too intense for me to deal with and the toddler mandatory to be born. yet interior the technique premiere to the epidural, mixed with the Nubain, the contractions weren't extremely that undesirable. And as perplexing because it ought to seem to do on the time, you would be wanting to respire SLOWLY in by way of your nostril and out by way of your mouth via fact the greater you scream and grunt, the greater severe it feels. i would be honest there have been some situations I screamed my head off and then I made the thought that screaming makes it harm worse, so I centred on the ceiling tile and took sluggish deep breaths. in the direction of the tip while your physique makes the "transition" is the worst element of it, and in case you're becoming an epidural, get it kinda early, while you evaluate which will make the exertions greater relaxing. i'm hoping this facilitates you out and good success with the exertions and early congrats on your valuable toddler! they're this form of delight!

Answer 7

Below is some facts about the onset of labor and truth about inductions and interventions... and things you can do naturally..

Unless your doc has a REAL medical reason to induce you I would wait!!! I blame my induction for my c-section...and thus my c-section caused me to have post partum depression for 3 years...Not all women have experiences like mine...(BTW I was 41 weeks) But more and more studies are showing that messing with the way things progress naturally can actually put you and or the baby at higher risk of other complications...

Again I would not induce unless there is a REAL MEDICAL REASON! like, pre-eclamsia, etc.
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Unless it is medically necessary to have a child early induction is not the safest thing to pursue. Average first pregnancies are 41 weeks 1 day & pregnancies with prior births average 40 weeks 3 days… (The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer) It is optimal to be patient and wait until your body & baby are ready. Actually only 4% of babies arrive on their due date, while 2/3’s arrive within 10 days (that’s 38 weeks 5 days to 41 weeks 3 days)(Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn by Simkin, Whalley and Keppler.)

“The onset of labor seems to be under the joint control of the hormonal (endocrine) systems of mother and baby. These systems function in synchrony so that most of the time the baby is ready to be born at about the same time the mother is physically and emotionally ready to give birth and to nourish and nurture her baby. Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) regulates the timing of the birth by triggering the changes in the mother’s uterus and in the fetus that must precede labor. Both the fetal brain and the placenta produce CRH. The rate at which the hormone is released is sometimes called the “feto-placental clock.” The clock is faster in some women than in others, which helps explain why healthy term babies are born at any time between thirty-seven and forty-two weeks gestation.” (Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn by Simkin, Whalley and Keppler.)

Intervention usually leads to more intervening, especially when you and your body and baby are not physically ready, and having an induction can put you at a higher risk of having a cesarean section, something that despite being the most common surgery in the U.S. carries many, many risks.

http://www.americanpregnancy.org/labornbirth/cesareanrisks.html

Some safe ways to try to bring on labor at home are:

Walking. And especially up & down stairs sideways. This helps the baby navigate the pelvic bones and allows the baby to put pressure on your cervix aiding in dilation.

Squatting is also good, both before labor & during. Before labor you can do squats to strengthen your legs for long periods of squatting during labor as well as stretching the joints & muscles associated with squatting. It also helps the baby put pressure on the cervix. And during labor it can open your pelvis up to 33% more, allowing more room for the baby to squeeze out!

I have heard good things about red raspberry tea (drink it chilled, hot it is gross!) It is said to strengthens/tones your uterus, thus causing your contractions to be more efficient and on occasion less painful.

The verdict is still out whether semen/sperm contain enough prostaglandin hormone to effectively ripen a cervix, but becoming sexually aroused and or having sex and nipple stimulation either by hand or breast pump have been proven on a occasion to effectively start labor contractions. That is because having sex, being sexually aroused and nipple stimulation cause your brain to release Oxytocin the natural form of the synthetic hormone Pitocin used by doctors to induce contractions.
All of the above methods are safe as they will not prematurely put you into labor, they will only push you over the edge if you are already close.

CASTOR OIL IS A LAXATIVE AND HAS NEVER BEEN PROVEN TO BE SAFE OR EFFECTIVE AT INDUCING LABOR. IT CAN PASS THE PLACENTA CAUSING THE BABY TO PASS MECONIUM (POOP) INSIDE PUTTING HIM/HER AT A HIGHER RISK OF INFECTION AND OTHER SERIOUS COMPLICATIONS!