Am I wrong to refuse an induction I didn’t want in the first place if it gets pushed back again?
Hi everyone, I’m currently 39+1 weeks pregnant with my second baby. My son was a big baby and there were some complications with his birth. They have obviously been monitoring my current pregnancy throughout and have been measuring baby at scans and measuring my bump at appointments. At 36 and 37 weeks I had several appointments at the hospital and no one was clear with me what these appointments were for at first. I then had a growth scan and they said baby was likely going to be huge again if they let me go to my due date, so they booked me in for an induction for today. They told me to call the hospital at 7:30 this morning so i did and they said i should have been told to call at 8:30 so i rang back at 8:30 as requested and they took my phone number and said they’d call me with a time to come in. I got a call at about 1:00 this afternoon saying they were overrun and would have to push me back to tomorrow. This isn’t a major problem while yes it’s frustrating and I want to meet my baby I also completely understand that other people with more important issues in their pregnancies take priority. My main issue is the fact that I’ve sorted childcare for my 2 year old and I don’t want to be away from him for too long but equally don’t want to bring him home for them to call me and tell me to come in and then I have to leave him again. And the fact that they were the ones who had concerns with me and wanted to induce me and then told me they couldn’t do it today. I’m also slightly panicked by the fact that they originally tried to book me in for tomorrow but they said they were full so couldn’t book me in, hence why i was booked for today. So I’m just worried that the same thing will happen tomorrow.
Essentially, my plan is to call them up at the time they’ve told me to and ask them to tell me whether or not they have space available for me and if not then I will just say I’m happy to just wait to go into labour naturally as they clearly don’t think these concerns are enough to induce me. If they can’t do it tomorrow I obviously want my little boy home with his mummy and daddy until I go naturally. Would this be a problem and be seen as a bad thing with the hospital? It’s just hard not knowing for definite and being kept waiting when I have a toddler who I obviously am missing but I want to know for definite what is happening before I make plans to bring him home again. Thank you for reading and I hope it all made sense 😅