Being Induced - morning or evening???

Im 5 days away from my due date and my midwife wants to know if i want to be induced in the morning (7.30am) or the evening (7.30pm) just in case i go over my due date - as she has to book it in advance. I have no idea which is better or why i would choose one over the other (apart from the sleep factor with the evening one). Also, would i have to stay in hospital after she inserts the gel or would i be able to go home?

I would go morning as chances are you will have the baby by the end of the day adn then you can have a sleep that night so doesn't muck things up, if you get what I mean.

I was induced at 8 am and had my wee man at 6.50pm - transferred to the other hospital and had a great nights sleep with a couple of wake ups to feed bubs.

I wasn't allowed home after the gel was put in but that was because my labour was established quickly my SIL and another friend were both allowed home for about 4-5 hours.

Yea the morning sounds like a better idea, you'll be hopefully more ready for a day's work than in the evening. I actually thought all inductions were done in the morning lol

I've had 2 inductions and both times were in the morning. First one I had to go in the night before (this was nearly 16yrs ago lol) and 2nd one (nearly 9yrs ago) I think it was 7.30am.

Stuff having a night time one lol

I say morning too. I was induced around 9am, and Ashlee was born via CS at 6pm. She had a pretty good sleep that night (and never got confused with daytime and nighttime!).

i had a evening one and it was horrable i had no sleep as i had the gel at 7pm on the tuesday and had conntractions from midnight and had james at 2.33pm on the wensday if i had a chosie i would of had a morning one as least your sleep not mucked up

I had the gel and waters broken at 6pm and then syntocin dripo at midnight - defieintely go for the morning one!! I found the first week really hard after because I had no sleep for about 36hrs and that is the worst thing with a new baby...

Morning!!

I've been induced one way or the other with all 6 of my pregnancies and they have been a mixture of mornings and evenings, I only had 1 time of gel inserted at night and I had to lie down for about 30mins then I was able to walk around, got my waters borken the nxt morning about 10am & had bubs about 11.30am. It will really depend on how your going to be induced and if your cervix is favourable. Discuss it with your MW, either way bubs is gonna come out and you'll be tired regardless. Best of luck hun Take Care

When I as induced in the morning and nothing had happened. They gave DH a rollaway bed to sleep on in the delivery room. We were all set to sleep at 8.30pm but my waters broke and that was it for sleeping that night. Once I had Andrew (at 1am) we were moved up to the post natal ward at 4am and that is when DH went home, and back again early the next morning.