requesting to be induced?

[BEX101]

Can you request to be induced?
This might sound awfull, but its more for my sanity than medicaal reasons. My OH is in the RAF and is due back from afganistan a few weeks before i'm due. We have just been told he is being posted in north scotland (for 4 years) the week after i'm due! He will get his 2 weeks paternity but wont realy be ab;e to book any extra time off 'cos only just started.
I'm going to move up there with him but its a big thing so soon after the baby. Now if the baby was born at 38 weeks it would give us 6 weeks near to family instead of just 4. Which i think will make a difference.

I have an ovarian cyst and i dont think its in my best interest to go full term anyway (and it looks like the baby will be a little on the large side anyway) Do you think it is a reasonable request to be induced early?

 

[*saulino*]

Hi

I think it should be okay , maybe ask your doctor or mw and see what they say!
Katrina

 

[Princess_Puddles]

I'm not so sure, if you talk to your GP or MW they may understand but i know where I live they don't like to induce you unless they really have to due to the baby not being ready to come and any complications that may a rise

 

[Alfiesmummy]

Im not sure.
Unless your dctor thinks that the cyst is harmful etc then they will all agree that it is in the best interest of the baby to stay inside till full term unless you have medical reasons for it to not ie it would be harmful to the baby should they stay in longer!
I know that you are nervous and scared and you want your OH home when baby is born and i can sympathise. My Oh works away and i was terrified he would be away when baby was born but what is first and formost important is that baby stays where it is untill it is ready to come out,

 

[Urchin]

I don't think they'd let you TBH.
Can you imagine if you were induced early and the baby had problems because of it? You'd feel terrible.
Being induced is HORRIBLE anyway.

 

[BEX101]

My family have a history of babies comming early anyway - so it may not be an issue. Just dont think it will be good for anyone for us to move 400 miles away when i'm 39 weeks pregnant. Plus i've got 2 horses to move. if the baby were to come before he starts his new job they will defere the start and i'll have thesuport of him and my familly in familiar suroundings. Plus with the midwife i know. if he starts work before the baby he only gets the min time off and i either have it at home in manchester with my family but pos not him, then have to move house when the baby is 2 weeks old so we can be together. or move up there with him and have the baby in a place i've only been for a week with no family suport.

 

[Minxy]

You'd only be induced if the doctor's thought the cyst was a factor, not your personal situation I'm afraid.

I know the latter stages of pregnancy are stressful but do try and relax. What will be will be, like you say baby may come early anyway.

Personally I'd do all I could to avoid induction, it was a horrible experience for me.

 

[*saulino*]

Hi

Ide have to agree being induced sucks!!
Katrina

 

[Sabrina]

What is going to happen about your ovarian cyst? Do you know if it will be removed after you've had the baby?

I doubt you could get induced early just because of a personal situation (but I guess there's no harm in asking). However, if the cyst is large and needs removing urgently could that mean you will have a CS anyway?

 

[Hellokitty]

Having just experienced induction and all the negative consequences I would strongly advise against it!

 

[BEX101]

It's not the personal circumstances as such that made us think of requesting an induction, its the physical effects of the situation that worry us. Its a 7 hour drive to where we are moving to and we are likely to be going up there a few times in the weeks leading up to him starting the job. he's worried i'm going to give birth at the roadside. He's worried about the effects of the baby not bonding with him because he isnt there in the early weeks or me not having his suport if i need an operation.
They are thinking of removing the cyst about a week after the birth. (dont ask me why not at the same time??)
I'm now having test for Obstetric Cholostis anyway which would prob mean an inducement at 37 weeks.

 

[nicki]

Talk to your midwife & doctor about it all, you never know.
When I went for my 'chat' with the consultant about what would happen if I went overdue (had this chat a week before my due date) and I asked if I could be induced if it went over, even for a day as I was in so much pain constantly and he bartered with me!!! (cheeky sod! ) he wanted me to wait the full 2 weeks but I was induced after a week but I did have to really push fo an induction

 

[Nicola]

I'm seeing my midwife at lunchtime today. I'll ask about this and post back this afternoon.

 

[Nicola]

Just home from seeing the midwife. She said under no circumstances would they induce anyone for anything other than medical reasons or if they were term + 10 days (so 41 weeks + 3 days). So no hope of trying that one as a means to making LO coming earlier. She said doing an induction earlier than overdue tended to not work, lead to complications and the mother ends up with a c-section so best not to risk "optional" inductions....there doesn't seem to be such a thing as "optional" inductions anyway. Medical or overdue at 41+3 only by the sounds of it.