congrats to all the new mummies!!
im now a day over due!
oh well she'll come when she's ready!
Kimmyjane84 how come your son was 16 days late??? i thought they only let people go two weeks overdue?
xx
Long story... Which I really hope doesn't scare anyone due to be induced over the next few days, as I'm sure it's not "the norm"...
I had 3 due dates: Sat 29 Nov 2008 (according to dating scan - which is the date they HAVE to use), Thurs 4 Dec (according to LMP) and Sun 7 Dec (according to an early scan we had to have due to a bleed)...
Between 40-42 weeks (according to EDD of 29 Dec) I had 2 sweeps, which did nothing to help things along
I was given a date for induction at my second sweep and went in to be induced at 7:30am on Sat 13 Dec (42 weeks exactly).
SAT 13 DEC: They gave me a pessary in the morning, which made very little difference. They gave me a second pessary in the afternoon, which again made very little difference. I stayed in over night (as did hubby) with the hope that things would get started on their own that night.
SUN 14 DEC: Still no sign of Harry and I was still only about 1cm dilated. The midwife didn't want to mess us around any more than was required, so said she would get a consultant to see us that morning to decide if they should use a third pessary or try to break my waters and put me on to a drip. By lunchtime, I still hadn't seen a consultant and there was still no sign of Harry being on his way. They were still monitoring him though and he was showing no signs of distress. I had tea on the ward and was then told that they were waiting on a labour room so that they could break my waters and get me on to a drip (although I still hadn't seen the consultant). I finally got to my room at about 8pm!! They tried to break my waters and attach a monitoring clip to Harry's head, but I had no fore-waters so they just attached the clip. They then put me on to the drip, which REALLY got things moving. I had gas & air and also diamorphine injections.
MON 15 DEC: After 14-15 hours on the drip Harry was back-to-back and I'd gone from 8cm back to 6cm dilated
Harry was trying to help things along and had managed to get himself stuck (as I have a low pubic arch). So a surgeon/consultant came to see me and it was decided that I would need to have an emergency C-Sec. I was taken off of the drip (at which point my contractions totally stopped, even though they'd been regular with the drip in place) and straight into theatre for my spinal block. At 11:29am Harry was delivered by C-Sec
He didn't breath on his own for a while, but was otherwise fine (just wanted to give us a scare!!).
All-in-all it was an awful experience and is the main reason that we've opted for a C-Sec at only 2 days over this time around. However, I still hope that Jessica decides to make an appearance prior to this date so that we can at least try for a natural birth (trial-of-scar/VBAC).
Again, sorry if you are due to be induced and have been put-off/upset/worried by this post, as I think it really is a worse-case scenario and we were just really unlucky.
Kim xx
Who ever thought I'd be saying I was glad of the scheduled c-section?! 
