I'm becoming increasingly certain that I'm going to have to have my labour induced and it's really making me feel shit. I don't want to go into labour for the first time on my own in the hospital on a ward full of strangers! Who does?
Don't get me wrong, I know lots of people would do anything just to be in my position and I'm very grateful to have had a healthy pregnancy and to be having my baby. But to be honest, I'm a FTM and I'm a bit anxious about what labour is going to be like and having to go through it alone (well, in a room with strangers), at least in the beginning. I'm not hospital-phobic or anything like that thankfully, but I'm a very shy and private person and I'll think I'll panic.
I'm 41+3 today and my induction is booked for Monday. It's at 8pm and I've been told my DP will have to go straight back home because visiting on the ward finishes at 8 (obviously once I'm in labour they'll move me and he can come back in).
Has anyone been this late and gone into labour naturally? I mean obviously that's a silly question, of course people have, but I suppose I just want peoples' experiences. I had a sweep yesterday but apart from what I think was a show, I haven't felt or noticed anything. I have wondered if my dates are wrong, but I would have been less than 3 weeks pregnant when I got a positive test and my early scans were always bang on with my estimated dates so I can't really be any less pregnant than I think I am, if you know what I mean.
Is it possible to just not go into labour eventually? I can't help but feel like it's down to something in my mind. I'm not particularly scared of labour itself and I normally deal quite well with pain, but I just can't imagine what it feels like? People just keep telling me "You'll know when it happens!". For ages I was on edge all the time at every little twinge, but lately whenever I feel something I just automatically think, don't be silly, it's never going to happen.
And what is induction actually like? At what point do they move you from the ward into a delivery room if the induction works? Am I going to get diarrhoea or be in screaming pain on a ward full of other women?
I know this is probably the most ridiculous post ever, I think I just needed to write it all out.
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Someone give me some hope?
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catlady1 · 15/03/2013 13:43
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