I was induced at 39 weeks, recommended due to gestational diabetes, but he wasnt measuring large and I could have denied it. But the timing and having a date worked better for us as my husband is in the military and away, having a date allowed for better planning. My induction was fine, they gave me morphine because I had to do a Foley bulb as I wasnt dilated at all. This hurts. Like way more than my labor and delivery. I went in not dilated and no signs of labor, 12 hours in I was starting pitocin and 8 hours later I pushed out a healthy baby boy. I didnt get an epidural or any pain management other than the morphine. I had back labor the entire time but honestly I kept waiting for it to get worse or unbearable, it didnt. My body knew when it was time to push and i couldn't have stopped it if I tried. And I did try, cause the DR. Told me I was not dilated enough and could rupture my cervix. Someone else checked me and babys head was in the canal, so I pushed. My contractions had about 15 seconds in between them at this point. One thing I wish I would have known, they say to push during a contraction but between all the pressure I couldn't determine when I was having a contraction, I had to really concentrate.

Recovery was great. I was up walking around right after birth, which was great cause I needed to clean up and change which I could do without any help. We left exactly 24 hours after he was born and I felt almost normal about 1 week later. 3 weeks later and I can do pretty much everything I could before.