Your guide to a more positive and informed induction experience
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...
After my eldest was born at 42+4, I had an inkling that my next bubba would follow the same pattern, I wasn’t wrong!.After being in slow labour and my baby being back to back for 3 days my husband and I decided we’d go in for my waters to be broken when I was 42 weeks. We made our way to West Suffolk hospital and arranged for our doula to meet us there in...
My first baby was a spontaneous birth at 37 weeks in a birthing pool – pretty much a dream delivery so I was pretty devastated to learn that I had gestational diabetes and would most likely need to be induced this time around. I saw my midwife at 37 weeks and had a stretch and sweep – I was told I was already 2cm and 80% effaced which was a big confidence boost that...
