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My doctor told me she would induce a week after my due date, and we even scheduled the induction. But luckily LO came on my due date.

My failed induction ended in c-section. I was given cervidil to soften the cervix overnight and then pitocin for an entire day but due to other complications with low fluid and the fact that I was past my due date, they didnt want to turn the pitocin to high to stress out the baby. basically my cervix never opened and I never went into active labor so I had to have c-section.
My induction might have been more successful if they were able to give me higher doses of pitocin.

I was induced at 40w6d due to maternal age, so actually for similar reasons to you though a different cause. I was in Labour for about 15 hours before delivering LO vaginally.

I had a gel inserted on the Tuesday night - no idea what it was called. Went home and felt fairly yuck - very period crampy. Basically lay on the couch watching "Say Yes to the Dress' , drinking cups of tea!
Went to sleep that night and woke up at 1:20am very much in labour. Rang the hospital to give them a heads up and tried to get some more sleep.
At about 4 am the contractions were 50 seconds long, 5 minutes apart so we headed to the hospital.
At 5 am my OB came and broke my water. The contractions afterwards were about 1000% stronger! I spent a long time in the shower or lying on my side.
At 10:30 am I was still only 5 cm dilated and had been having 1 min contractions 2 min apart since my waters were broken. I asked for an epidural - best thing EVER- and it was administered at 11 am.
At a bit past 4 pm the midwife said it was time to push, so I did! 30 min later LO arrived, pink and screaming!

My induction process was very positive. I trusted my OB and I knew that whatever the outcome in terms of interventions LO needed to come out sooner rather than later.

You will get a lot of negative reaction about induction but the way I look at it is that induction was my chance to deliver LO vaginally. Without it I HAD to have a csection as the risk to LO was too high to wait for me to go into labour 2 weeks after my due date.

Best of luck!

@Mrsdaredevil: I was induced just before 39 weeks (38+5). I had been dilated to 3cm for 2-3 weeks, and then when I went in to the hospital I was between 3-4 which was great.

I was started on pitocin, magnesium sulfate (for my high BP) and a saline drip at 5pm. At 8pm I felt my first contraction (The monitor said I'd been having them since I got there, but I hadn't felt them yet), and it felt like menstrual cramping. I was actually able to sleep through them for a little while. At midnight I had a painfully strong contraction and my water broke. It was insane how quickly it went from hardly feeling anything to really intense contractions. From then on I was in active labor, my contractions were about 5 minutes apart, it only took a little bit longer for my contractions to consistently be 2 minutes apart. It was really, really intense though. My mom informed me that induction contractions are a lot worse than natural labor (she's done both). But to be perfectly honest, I thought I was going to die! lol It was really hard, not gonna lie. I was vomiting with every contraction it was so intense.

At 2:50am my body started pushing, I could do nothing to stop it. It was just...happening. I told them and the nurses told me not to - yeah, tell that to a women in active labor - it's IMPOSSIBLE to not push when your body starts! I had just been checked an hour earlier and was only 5cm, so the nurses were saying it wasn't time. But since there was nothing I could do, they checked me again and I was already at 10cm. I was SO encouraged! THIS IS IT! So I was able to actually start pushing with each contraction too. I definitely felt the burning and pain and it was so hard- but halfway through pushing, my midwife told me I could reach down and feel his head. I had no idea he was already completely crowned! Feeling his head was what gave me the strength to push through, no pun intended.
At 3:44 I gave birth, so all in all I was only in active labor for less than 4 hours. the doctor was SO surprised because typically magnesium sulfate works against pitocin and makes induction much longer. But the nurses said in many instances, because I was pre-eclamptic, a mother's body knows the baby is safest out - so works quickly to get the baby out. That was definitely the case in my situation and I'm so glad it was! It felt like forever, but I was so happy to see my baby!

Because of the vomiting I was severely dehydrated, and also from the quick labor I think my body was in shock, so I passed out after getting stitched up. Also, the mag sulfate passes onto the baby so he had a hard time getting his breathing and temperature regulated. He turned blue after birth and had to be taken away. So it was definitely hard. Since you have high BP you may have to be on mag as well, so you should know what kind of effects it can have. It's not a fun drug It made me feel constantly groggy and tired. I could hardly focus my eyes or brain on anything - communicating took a lot of effort and really wore me out. You have to stay on it for an additional 24 hours in order to regulate BP. So the first day was not easy honestly. But once I got off of it, everything felt so much better.

Hopefully that helps a little. Ask me anything you want

I was induced at 39+7 (LO settled onto my sciatic nerve exactly 1 week before her due date and I couldn't walk without great pain). Here's my timeline:

7:45AM-arrived at the hospital/checked in (I was 2cm dilated)

8:30AM-pitocin/saline started

12:00PM-felt first contraction which doubled me over while trying to walk to bathroom (back labor on top of sciatic pain); epidural requested and placed (I was 4cm dilated)

12:45PM-doctor broke my water

1:00PM-baby's HR dropped which brought in lots of medical staff but it stabilized quickly once they put me on oxygen and got me on my side; consensus was that the baby reacted to the epidural and breaking of my water so close together

2:30PM-internal check revealed I was 8cm dilated; they started prepping for delivery

4:30PMish-I was 10cm dilated and fully effaced so they had me start pushing

4:54PM-DD was born vaginally

I had complications afterwards and was up and moving around (well as much as the sciatic would allow) within about an hour of delivery. It took about 2 weeks for the sciatic pain to go away which I was told is normal.