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Positive Induction Podcast – Episode 13 – Chantalle’s Induction Birth Story

In this episode I’m joined by Chantalle, who shares a positive induction story from Ayrshire, Scotland. During the Covid pandemic. So get as comfy you can and enjoy.   Additional Resources Gillian Jarvie offers Hypnobirthing Classes throughout East Renfrewshire, Glasgow and South Lanarkshire, you can find out more at: https://www.simplypositivebirth.co.uk/ You can read more positive induction birth stories in our birth story library And you can find out more about The Positive Induction Course,...

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Adrienn’s Induction Story

My waters broke early morning just before my due date. The colour was a nice clear pinkish one, so I went back to bed to relax and called the hospital. No contractions or anything similar followed and I got a little nervous about a possible induction coming. They quickly checked us in the hospital, Baby was absolutely fine on the ctg monitor but unfortunately my cervix was still closed. I was sent home and...

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Keriann’s Induction due to Gestational Hypertension

My doctor wanted to induce at 37 weeks due to gestational hypertension. I asked if we could do 37 + 1 because the 37 week mark was my son’s second birthday. As fate would have it, my blood pressure spiked the morning of my son’s birthday and we had to go to the hospital that day anyways. It was a busy day there so I spent about nine hours in triage before they decided...

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What is Induction?

What is induction? It’s talked about a lot, but we don’t often hear what it actually involves. I remember people telling me… “The don’t let you go past 41 weeks“, “You’ll have to be induced” and so on, neither or which are true, but that’s a story for another day! I heard a lot of comments about induction but I didn’t really know what it involved, or what it really meant. Even when I...

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What is a stretch and sweep?
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What is a Stretch and Sweep?

A stretch and sweep, sometimes called a sweep or membrane sweep, or stripping the membranes. This is usually the first part of induction, and you may need to make a choice about whether to have some in the weeks before your hospital induction appointment, you may be offered one or more sweeps, so the important question is…   What happens? As always, you should have an explanation of the procedure you are being offered,...

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Melissa’s Story

I was induced at 39w exactly due to gestational diabetes. I had been in hospital for 6 days prior so was taken from the ward to the birthing unit and monitored on the CTG before they inserted the hormonal tape at 10.30am after an internal showed I was about 2cm dilated with a favourable cervix. Tightenings started after lunch and another internal done at about 2.30 showed I was still only 2cm dilated but...

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Kelly’s Amazing Induction

I had the most amazing induction ever when it got under way.Birth storyTrigger Talk of previous birth trauma.birth injury (not as bad as you think only to me dont worry !)Induced due to GD.On insulin no sliding scale needed!!! The birth itself was induction, it was perfect better than my spontaneous.I got taken to delivery suite. And met by a beautiful midwife named Meg. She had only been working there for 3 weeks.I gave...

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Listen to your body

At around 30 weeks I experienced itching in my arms, legs, feet and hands mainly at night. I put this down to hormone changes and tried to forget about it. It began to get worse just before 32 weeks I looked up online “itching in pregnancy” but could only really see itching with stretching of belly etc. When I looked a bit further I seen obstetric cholestasis and thought all these symptoms added up...

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Beth’s Induction

During my 3rd pregnancy our baby girls weight dropped below the 10th percentile meaning I needed to be induced. The induction was take place at 37+6 weeks via the Foley Balloon Catheter. So I went in at 9am on the 9th of February for the Balloon putting in place in my cervix. The idea is for the balloon to mimic the babies head resulting in dilation of the cervix, the aim is to make...

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Beth’s Positive Induction Story due to GD

I started the positive birth company early in pregnancy as I knew that hypnobirthing was something I really wanted to do. I also purchased the book to read too as sometimes things stick more when I read them! I had a really straight forward pregnancy from the onset but fast forward to 28 weeks and the diagnosis of the GD things obvs changed. I knew I’d be induced and already got my head around...

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Kayleigh’s Postive Induction Story

 I spent a lot of my pregnancy worrying as I was told at 12 weeks that I had low Papp-a. This was something completely new to me, as my first pregnancy was straight forward (apart from resulting in a planned caesarean as baby girl was breech). Low Papp-a meant that my placenta could fail later in pregnancy, so I’d need regular growth scans to check that baby was staying on a healthy percentile and...

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Lois’ Positive Induction Story in Covid Pandemic

Long story… I want to start by thanking this group of Mama’s for all your positive induction stories, without this group I honestly don’t think I would have had such an empowering and positive induction experience! We found out we were pregnant just before the first lockdown in March after returning from travelling the world for 6 months prior and we were so excited! I suffered extreme morning sickness for the first 13 weeks...

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