being induced for the first time...

[3xJennx3]

So due to having chronic abruption I am being induced next week 12.11 at 37 weeks... this is my third baby and my first time being induced I had my other two sons all natural and I don't know what to expect from this new upcoming experience...I am all the while excited and nervous all at the same time ... what have some of ur inductions been like and how long after starting did u deliver?

[Theanna1989]

I was induced with my first because my water broke. It was a Friday night at 8 went straight to the hospital and they admitted me.  I was given poticin (sorry if I misspelled)  at 10pm and contractions got super hard I didn't know  contractions were worse when being induced I thought contractions were just like that painful.  Well anyways I stuck toy plan to not have the epidural.  And at 6:47am on Saturday I delivered my son a 9lbs 3oz baby boy. Now I'm 36weeks with my second and it's a girl and in also going to be induced because my doctor has to leave for the holidays and I refuse to let the doctor on call deliver my baby. But this time around I'm definitely going to get the epidural

[hol1127]

I was induced on 4/7 this past April. My Dr used a cervidil which is inserted near your cervix to help soften ur cervix. I was 39+2weeks, a fingertip dilated and near preeclamptic. Well the cervidil stays in 12 hours, the next morning around 6:30-7am the Dr checked my cervix-NOTHING!! I had failed to progress, in fact I was so closed that they couldn't even break my water!! I ended up needing a c- section because my blood pressure had been way up because of the preeclampsia that they didn't want to chance any farther induction. My little man was born at 10:23 am and I'm currently 22 weeks with another little boy, hoping to go natural.