It's all systems go!! *Updated on page 3*

[Tillytots]

aww sorry it all stopped

hope you feel better after your cuddle and snooze not long til weekend and you'll definately have your little princess

 

[sarah2807]

Hope things get started again soon-if not sat isn't that far away!
good luck hunnie!. xxxxxxxx

 

[Urchin]

Aww sorry you're feeling so down, I hope things start up again for you soon, get some rest then tomorrow get walking up and down those stairs!

 

[floppit]

I've been reading a bit about it and apparently I should have been offered an induction today (given the choice) but that wasn't discussed with me - very little was.

This is what NICE says:

If your waters break before labour starts

Sometimes a woman's waters break before labour starts. This happens in about one in twenty pregnancies and is known as prelabour rupture of the membranes (or PROM). When this happens, about nine out of ten women will go into labour naturally within twenty-four hours. The longer the time between PROM and the birth of the baby the higher the risk of infection to you or your baby.

If you are more than 37 weeks pregnant and your waters have broken but you have not gone into labour you should be offered the choice of either:

· Induction of labour
OR

· A "wait and see approach" to see if labour will start naturally

I'm scared it will mean longer in hospital because I hate hospitals and have never been in one overnight on my own. I feel like I don't know anything - I thought the infection risk was just to me not me and the baby, I don't know how common it is or what the consequences might be.

I wish I didn't have to go back there - it wasn't a happy visit.

 

[Geordie&Bairn]

sorry it all stopped for you
and i that between now and sat you go into full labour nautraly

im not sure about the inducing meaning longer stay in hosptial sorry

just wanted to give you lots of hugs and good lucks
which ever way it goes you will soon have your wonderul baby in your arms


sarah

 

[fifi211]

Aww hun I am so sorry, was expecting to log and see you had had baby

Could you not ring the hospital and explain about your anxities regarding waiting for induction etc and hopefully they can put your mind at ease or maybe offer for you to go in sooner.

You sounded so positive this morning, I was really envious knowing that I would have been panicking, I feel for you completely that they have knocked that out of you

 

[muppetmummy]

I never knew they were supposed to offer you a choice, I bet a lot of people don't, which is why they don't mention it.
It's bad they didn't give you a choice of induction yesterday or waiting. I bet its because they were busy

I'd phone them today, remind them of the NICE guidelines and ask if you can be induced today

 

[Bloom]

Not much longer now

 

[floppit]

Thanks everyone for all the good wishes....

Muppet mummy - I did give them a ring today to find out more about the whole thing, pro's and cons etc. I got to speak to the assessment suite rather than the labour suite and they at least filled in some of the blanks for me but felt it was doubtful (not impossible) that the labour suite would agree to bringing induction forward. I've left it as it is for now, head I been able to go ahead yesterday I think I'd have gone for it but I'm so tired now and feel pretty low that I reckon a little time to try and perk up might be a good thing.

I feel such a dick for how much something like this got to me, I haven't cried so much in years!! It's been so hard to explain to hubby or my best mate I just feel gutted for having been so excited and so vulnerable to it all being forced on me now. I also think it may be alot to do with uber hormones - whatever it is it's been a humbling day or so!

 

[muppetmummy]

I think it's understandable to be upset when you'd geared yourself up for labour and meeting your LO. The disappointment must be huge

 

[debecca]

You're being so hard on yourself! It's totally understandable that you feel down and deflated when you were convinced it was all systems go and now it's all stopped. I can TOTALLY understand and sympathise with yout frustration

Sounds like the hospital were really crap in explaining your options. At least on the plus side you will have a baby in your arms by the end of the weekend

 

[Charlie:-)]

Sorry things seemed to have stopped, hoping things get going again before tomorrow.

 

[floppit]

Nothing has happened today except vey painful but irregular pains.

Well by tomorrow night I should know what the induction was like!

Thanks for all the support, I still feel a bit crappy but it's good to know you all don't think I'm a dick too (gone all sensitive in my old age!).

 

[fifi211]

Don't be daft, I would feel exactly the same if it had happened to me.