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Anyone gone natural with pitocin induction
hopefully this won't even be an issue, but due to being gestational diabetic the drs are saying I *may* have to be induced around 39 wks or right at my DD bc they don't want to risk him getting too big for a vaginal delivery. I've heard lots of horror stories about how painful pitocin causes labor to be and the nurse at the hospital yesterday told me if I do need induced that I may as well just get on board for an epidural bc most women cannot handle the contractions, and are confined to the bed so I couldn't take advantage of the birth tub due to the IV stand and the required monitoring. Any advice?
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Re: Anyone gone natural with pitocin induction
I did not. Not to be negative, but I couldn't make it past 3cm with pitocin, I was completely unprepared for the pain and had no coping tools. You don't need to be confined to bed if your hospital has telemetry monitors. My hospital didn't have any available when I was in labor and it was hard not being able to move more then 3 feet from the bed. I could use the labor ball so that was helpful.
My chiropractor did go pain med free with pitocin, she said knowing what she knows about her spinal cord there was no way anyone was sticking a needle in it. She also said it was really difficult, but she did it. She is a doula and very pro natural child birth. I am doing hypnobabies now and it makes me wonder how long I would be able to go with out an epidural. I hope not to find out this time.
Good luck
There are many women on this board that had pitocin during labor and were able to go pain med free. Unfortunately I wasn't one of them, although I did go 8 hours on the max dose before I got the epi. By the time I had my DD via c section I was on pit for 18 hours. I did dilate completely, and pushed for over 3 hours, but she would not desend down the birth canal.
I think every birth is completely and utterly different. Go in with the skills and mindset that you can do it.
My mom had three natural labors without being induced and without any pain medications what-so-ever, then for her fourth delivery, she was induced and begged for an epi within 8 hrs, didn't give birth until 23 hours into it.
Pitocin should be the LAST step in an induction. Membrane stripping, wait, vaginal medication (cervidil, prostin, etc.), wait, vaginal medication dose #2, wait, possibly rupturing the membranes, wait, then going onto a pitocin drip if needed.
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I think this really depends. I did not want my water broken because I didn't want to start the 24 hour clock. It broke on its on about 5 hours in.
Anyway, I made it to 7 cm with a pit induction before getting the epi. My problem was that Max's heart kept decelerating and they were having trouble keeping him on the monitor because in order to work through the contraction I needed to move around. So eventually they wanted me to stay still on my back (at first they couldn't get the monitor into his scalp). That was the end. It was excruciating so I got the epidural. I'm glad I did. It allowed me to breath and him to recover more quickly from the decels. I also ended up waiting over an hour to push after being fully dilated so that he could get lower in my pelvis. I don't think I would have been able to do that otherwise. Turned out his heart rate kept decelerating because the cord was around his neck.
Even though I didn't do it. I do think it's possible to go without pain meds, on the other hand you should be flexible. Had I not chilled out and his rate recovered I really think there was a strong chance that he would have been taken by emergency c-section.
I had a pitocin induction, and did not get an epi. I had high BP and so was not allowed to get up from the bed the entire labor. They started the pitocin at 6am on Wednesday, and DS was born at 1:46 pm on Thursday. So about 32 hours on pit.
It can be done, but it was not exactly a positive experience. I was miserable but absolutely determined to not get the epi. I am hoping for a totally natural birth this time, with no induction.
I had to get induced with pitocin because my H2O had broken at midnight and the contractions still hadn't started 16 hrs later. I avoided going to the hospital for as long as possible because I didn't want to get induced. I got pitocin, but had no other med intervention. They say that contractions are more painful with induction, but I will not say that because I had never been in labor before. So I don't know if they are worse than without. I hope to have a med free birth this time around. Then I will be able to comment if the contractions were worse with pitocin than without.
So I would say that if this is your 1st baby, go into the hospital with an open mind. Other mamas may say it hurts a lot. But if you have nothing to compare it to, just go in thinking that you can do it and you'll get through it. Worked for me.
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With DD#1 my labor was augmented with pitocin because I was still 1cm after my water had been broken for 15 hours (during which time I was having regular contractions). I did not get an epi. My whole labor (from when my water broke) lasted 24.5 hours from the time I got the pitocin it took 9 hours to be fully dilated and I only pushed for a half hour.
Yes the pitocin made the contractions more intense but with DD#2 I didn't have pitocin and that was worse. Since I didn't have the pitocin in my system with DD#2 it took me almost 3 hours to go through transition with DD#1 transition lasted about a half hour. I'd say being in transition for a longer amount of time was much more painful that pit contractions.
You can have pitocin and go pain med-free! It irritates me when people insist that the two need to go hand in hand, that nurse is a moron and if I were you I wouldn't let her anywhere near you while you are in labor. I do agree with PP though that pitocin should be the last resort for induction.
This.
I've also now had a spontaneous labor, and I don't think that Pitocin-induced contractions are any more intense than natural contractions. My induced labor was just a lot longer (about 10 hours of active labor vs. 4 hours for my spontaneous labor)
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I have not. But I watched my sister do it with her brand new baby girl less than 2 weeks ago.
They gave her pitocin because they weren't happy with how long it took her to progress after her water broke and they didn't want it to take too long. She noticed with the first contraction that it was much different; stronger and more painful. But it made everything move much faster. By the time it was too much for her to bear she was already 9cm so she didn't get an epidural. Obviously everyone's pain tolerances are different but it is possible.
A friend of mine's mother swears having pitocin isn't any different than not. She had pitocin with one of four.
I just did on Tuesday. I definitely found it challenging because of the immobility, however it is totally possible.
https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=55320021#55320021
I was induced with Pitocin and loved it
I did get a dose of Stadol about15 minutes before transition. Had I known that I was at that point in labor I would have held off (I thought for sure I had a few more hours). I didn't have a bad expierence with the Stadol at all, but I would have held off if I knew I was about to be pushing.
I had prepared for a Bradley Birth and being on the moniters and the IV I felt didn't take away from it. I sat in bed and joked and read trash magazines until the contractions got intense. When I needed to concentrate on them, I did the side laying position with a pillow over my head. My nurses where great about un-hooking me everytime I wanted to get up and go to the bathroom. Labor lasted a little over 8 hours.
I did! Here's my birth story https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/54566538.aspx
The monitoring was annoying, but I was still able to move around the bed a bit and sway and sit on the birthing ball. Plus you take it off when you go to the bathroom so you can sneak in a few contractions on the toilet!