Pregnancy-Info's popular weekly newsletters have been generating lots of great comments from readers, especially when it comes to labor induction. Are you thinking about getting your labor induced? Have you been induced before? Share your experiences with being induced, or tell us how it went if your baby stayed in past his due date. Read up on other moms' stories too! Need more information on labor induction? Check out Pregnancy-Info's article on inducing labor.
Share Your Induction Stories!
Name: Jennifer • Due Date: 08/18/2006
I need somebody's advice. I am almost 37 weeks along with my first baby. (I will be 37 weeks by this Saturday 29th of July) I have begun having contractions but I was told by the doctor that they are just Braxton Hicks contractions and nothing big yet. He also told me that my cervix is "not" ripened, I am "not" dialated, or efaced or membrane thining or anything. So, I'm 3 and a half weeks from my due date and my body is not yet ready to deliver. However my problem is this: My husband is in the military and he has been training in California now for 2 months and he just recieved orders to come home for 10 days to visit family one last time before they ship out. So his orders say that he will come home this Saturday (my 37th week) and leave by the next Saturday (my 38th week). And he wants to induce labor sometime between my 37th and 38 week, so that he'll be here for the baby's birth. Yet, since the doctor told me that I am not ready this increases my chance of infection to either the baby or me, longer labor, c-section, more pain, complications, ect. So I don't want to do it because I do not want to endanger my baby or myself. Yet, he wants me to no matter what. I feel that he does not care about the risks, but I do not want to upset him because I know how much this would mean to him if he were here to see the baby be born. In my opinon though, if when he comes home....if sex, lots of walking, ect. do not help bring on the labor naturally, then he just won't get to see his child be born. Because I don't want to take the chance of having a c-section just so he can see his child be born. Is this a wrong stance for me to take on this situation, or shall I just induce labor and take all the risks (considering how early I am and how the doctor already told me that my body is not ready)? Someone please reply.
Name: mommy101 • Due Date: 07/30/2006
I wish this baby who come out now, i have tried to narualy induce labor but nothing.... i've been walkin g... i even tried castor oil .. all it did was make me sick i'm still gonna keep hoping this baby will come out sooner rather than later .. but who knows... it maybe liek me (i was 2 weeks overdue) but i really hop not!
Name: emmaleigh • Due Date: 07/25/2006
my due date is tomorow (25 july 2006) and the babys head is only 2/5th engaged. they've said they dont think he'll come on his own and i'll HAVE TO WAIT 12 DAYS!!! whats all that about? going the full 40 weeks is bad enough in the blistering heat but another 12 days i can't bear it i want inducing now before i explode ha ha
Name: RICO SALLY • Due Date: 08/07/2006
THIS IS MY 9TH PREGNANACY AND IT HAS BEEN THE WORST I,VE HAD EVERY MISERY ASSOCIATED WITH PREGNANCY,FROM HEART BURN, HAIR LOSS ,VERICOSE VEINS (ALL OVER),MORNING SICKNESS FOR 7 MONTHS AND I,M READY I,M 37 WEEKS AND CAN,T WAIT TO BE INDUCED THIS MONDAY.I,VE BEEN 4 CM SINCE JUNE WHEN THEY HAD TO STOP MY LABOR AND I,M 50% EFFACED I,VE NEVER BEEN INDUCED BEFORE AND HONESTLY,I CAN,T WAIT!
Name: cecilia • Due Date: 08/05/2006
i want to induce labor because my daugther is graduating on agust 16 and i wanna be able to be there 4 her
Name: Sarah • Due Date: 08/10/2006
i am 37 weeks pregnant with twins. i was induced with my first two children and everything went well. my doctor agreed to induce me in four days. i would really like to experience going into labour on my own but i am so big and uncomfortable i will go along with being induced. i am so excited to meet these babies.
