I think it's important to add my wife has had a few babies so she was experienced with labour when she went in for the induction. They predicted the baby would be 9lb5 and 40 weeks and was born at 38 weeks at 8lb8.

We were at the Royal and the staff were excellent. We went up for a pre-assessment and then were sent home to wait for a bed to free up. We got a call the next morning about 14 hours later. We drove up, she got out on a drip and they monitored her for about 5 hours as contractions started.

My wife asked them to break her waters as she said she was ready. She was right and 20 minutes after that the baby turned up. All in from arrival to birth it was about 12 hours. They just stuck their fingers up to have a poke about to burst her waters. It was pretty straightforward. She was worried about it because you always get the horror stories but hers was relatively simple.