Induced with no sign of labor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been there, OP. It is hard.
Baby may be having trouble engaging. Can you try to move around, peanut ball, squats (that may sound laughable at the moment) to try to give baby ways to move.
Most places will let you have clear fluids at any point. Can someone bring you bone broth? Some places will also let you have eating breaks (e.g., btw doses of cytotec). It is worth asking.

+1 Get out of bed. They can move your IV pole. You can bounce on a peanut ball, or just sit up in the bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would just eat, to be honest. There is really no evidence to not eat in labor - read the Emily Oster book (not that you can right now, but just trust me haha). I would have your husband get your some things you can eat really fast between times when the nurses are in - spoonfuls of peanut butter, gatorade, granola bars. There is no reason for you to starve.

I agree with this. I was with midwives for my induction and they told me I could eat, after the nurse admiistering the meds said I couldn't. The reason they put you on a clear liquid diet is because if you end up with a c-section there's a tiny risk of aspirating. Miniscule. Cost/benefit and all that - eat!

[Anonymous]

Op here. I did not make satisfactory progress on dilation, and c section was performed on day 3. It was almost 70 hours with me no food and stuck at 6 cm and in terrible pain. Baby girl was out 9 lbs 3 oz, a baby one. I am relieved now, but if I knew about this final outcome, I should have opted for c section at the beginning. Thank you everyone and wish good luck to everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I did not make satisfactory progress on dilation, and c section was performed on day 3. It was almost 70 hours with me no food and stuck at 6 cm and in terrible pain. Baby girl was out 9 lbs 3 oz, a baby one. I am relieved now, but if I knew about this final outcome, I should have opted for c section at the beginning. Thank you everyone and wish good luck to everyone.

That’s awful, I’m sorry. Even if you are all okay now, even if it goes as smoothly as possible, birth is pretty traumatic. I really think everyone should have some level of support in processing it. A PACE group worked for me but if you already work with a therapist maybe you could fine time to telehealth in the next few weeks so you can at least tell the story of what happened. I am in no way an expert on trauma processing but just telling the story to a group of other new moms who really “got it” was a big help for me even though I would have said at the time that I was “fine.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I did not make satisfactory progress on dilation, and c section was performed on day 3. It was almost 70 hours with me no food and stuck at 6 cm and in terrible pain. Baby girl was out 9 lbs 3 oz, a baby one. I am relieved now, but if I knew about this final outcome, I should have opted for c section at the beginning. Thank you everyone and wish good luck to everyone.

Similar thing happened to me. I was at GW. Days of not eating or sleeping. On day three they finally let me eat something . Little to no help after the delivery and no nursery. It was terrible and next delivery will be a scheduled csection at a hospital with a nursery.

[Anonymous]

Happened to me at GW….what hospital were you at OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I did not make satisfactory progress on dilation, and c section was performed on day 3. It was almost 70 hours with me no food and stuck at 6 cm and in terrible pain. Baby girl was out 9 lbs 3 oz, a baby one. I am relieved now, but if I knew about this final outcome, I should have opted for c section at the beginning. Thank you everyone and wish good luck to everyone.

Congratulations on the birth of your baby girl! Hope you're both doing well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I did not make satisfactory progress on dilation, and c section was performed on day 3. It was almost 70 hours with me no food and stuck at 6 cm and in terrible pain. Baby girl was out 9 lbs 3 oz, a baby one. I am relieved now, but if I knew about this final outcome, I should have opted for c section at the beginning. Thank you everyone and wish good luck to everyone.

Similar thing happened to me. I was at GW. Days of not eating or sleeping. On day three they finally let me eat something . Little to no help after the delivery and no nursery. It was terrible and next delivery will be a scheduled csection at a hospital with a nursery.

This is so strange to me because I had a 5 day induction at GW and was able to eat and sleep (though had to demand the time to sleep). They also had a nursery available, though I didn't use it. PP was a disaster, of course. This was a few months ago.

I'm sorry you had such a bad experience!

[Anonymous]

You people are nuts. I sent my DH out for Shake Shack on my delivery day. I gave the hospital filks the evil eye. The nurses watched me enviously as I ate my shroom veggie burger.

If I decide to have baby#2 I will deliver at a birthing center or at home. None of that "no eating" sh*t.

[Anonymous]

Drink a half a shot glass of castor oil but be ready to sh!t your brains out for a couple of hours. If baby is ready that will be enough to start contractions.

I only say this because you are beyond 40 weeks and have had a limited risk pregnancy.

Lastly, try not to think of it as a "due date". It's more of an "expected delivery timeframe". I think statistically most babies are born closer to 41.5 weeks if given the opportunity to go into spontaneous labor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You people are nuts. I sent my DH out for Shake Shack on my delivery day. I gave the hospital filks the evil eye. The nurses watched me enviously as I ate my shroom veggie burger.

If I decide to have baby#2 I will deliver at a birthing center or at home. None of that "no eating" sh*t.

I've never given birth in a hospital. They're filthy and disgusting and full of archaic rules that have no evidence basis. Don't eat! Lay on your back to push the baby out! Constant fetal monitoring so they can manipulate you into a c section when the baby experiences natural heart acceleration/deceleration during labor! No thanks, hard pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people are nuts. I sent my DH out for Shake Shack on my delivery day. I gave the hospital filks the evil eye. The nurses watched me enviously as I ate my shroom veggie burger.

If I decide to have baby#2 I will deliver at a birthing center or at home. None of that "no eating" sh*t.

I've never given birth in a hospital. They're filthy and disgusting and full of archaic rules that have no evidence basis. Don't eat! Lay on your back to push the baby out! Constant fetal monitoring so they can manipulate you into a c section when the baby experiences natural heart acceleration/deceleration during labor! No thanks, hard pass.

Gosh you're a special person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You people are nuts. I sent my DH out for Shake Shack on my delivery day. I gave the hospital filks the evil eye. The nurses watched me enviously as I ate my shroom veggie burger.

If I decide to have baby#2 I will deliver at a birthing center or at home. None of that "no eating" sh*t.

I've never given birth in a hospital. They're filthy and disgusting and full of archaic rules that have no evidence basis. Don't eat! Lay on your back to push the baby out! Constant fetal monitoring so they can manipulate you into a c section when the baby experiences natural heart acceleration/deceleration during labor! No thanks, hard pass.

I've given birth in a hospital 3 times (including one hemorrhage when I was damn glad to be in a hospital) and literally nothing that you've said here was my experience. Maybe stop posting tired stereotypes on subjects you know nothing about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I did not make satisfactory progress on dilation, and c section was performed on day 3. It was almost 70 hours with me no food and stuck at 6 cm and in terrible pain. Baby girl was out 9 lbs 3 oz, a baby one. I am relieved now, but if I knew about this final outcome, I should have opted for c section at the beginning. Thank you everyone and wish good luck to everyone.

This happened to me, too. They popped my water, and I had pitocin, and as soon as they turned it off, I stopped dialating. Stopped at 5cm after 12 hours, and even the midwife said to just get a csection. Baby was also 9lbs (I was over a week due).

IMO, the csection was the way to go because I am very petite, and I think the baby would've gotten stuck in the channel.

My second was a scheduled C due to above and I had gestation diabetes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I did not make satisfactory progress on dilation, and c section was performed on day 3. It was almost 70 hours with me no food and stuck at 6 cm and in terrible pain. Baby girl was out 9 lbs 3 oz, a baby one. I am relieved now, but if I knew about this final outcome, I should have opted for c section at the beginning. Thank you everyone and wish good luck to everyone.

This happened to me, too. They popped my water, and I had pitocin, and as soon as they turned it off, I stopped dialating. Stopped at 5cm after 12 hours, and even the midwife said to just get a csection. Baby was also 9lbs (I was over a week due).

IMO, the csection was the way to go because I am very petite, and I think the baby would've gotten stuck in the channel.

My second was a scheduled C due to above and I had gestation diabetes.

Same stats and issues. Barely progressed, very petite, over 9lb baby... I did wait it out and didn't get a c section. Doctors weren't concerned, but the nurses and our families were pretty nasty to us ("why put yourself through pain? Just do it already, we want to see the baby!"). Anyways, I'm a glutton for pain so I just dealt with the pain and no eating. After 48 hours they did turn off my pitocin so I could sleep and I got to eat. I felt pretty faint since pregnant women eat a lot. Baby came like 1.5 days later. LOL. And it was nearly the same for all 3 of my kids. For babies 2 and 3 I snuck in a huge bag of snacks.

First time was def the slowest. I think a csection is the right answer. I was so darn exhausted after my births that I really had trouble caring for the baby, especially in the hospital (yay! no nursery!).