Natural labor vs pitocin induced labor - Page 2

[MarineWife]

My 2nd was induced and my 3rd was an unmedicated homebirth. They were both pretty much the same. The first 10 hours were fine. My contractions got progressively stronger but they weren't painful and labor wasn't difficult. It wasn't until the last two hours when I got to transition that it got extremely painful. I ended up getting and epidural at the hospital. I assumed it was so painful because of the pitocin and thought my homebirth would be easier. It wasn't. I was in just as much pain during transition. The only difference was that pain medication was not available.

[kriket]

Originally Posted by lillymonster 

I am wondering if there is a difference in amount too? I have my medical records and they increased pit every 30 minutes, and then kept turning it off, so I wonder if I had a lower amount if it were to be more manageable.

Maybe, I was told I was going to be given "just a whiff" of pit because I had broken water, and no labor. Every 30m they came in and turned me up too, and I could feel the next contraction was much stronger. It was so fake and forced. And you had to have the stupid monitors. I hated it. I was told I could come off it eventually, but "I was doing so well, they didn't want to risk stalling labor by taking me off" blah.

if I had it to do over, I would tell them to back off and see if labor starts on it's own.

I am also curious, if anything, I may wait too long with this one for fear of intervention. Chances are I will be screaming "no!! 5 more mins then we can go!!" while DH stuffs me in the car lol

I did manage until the end without drugs, so it can be done :) Iike other mamas said, I felt like I was doing ok (but very tired, I hadnt eaten all day :() until I was about 10cm and declared I had to push or I was going to pass out from exhaustion. Pushing wasn't too bad, it was the only thing that my body felt like it knew what it was doing!

[MarineWife]

Originally Posted by lillymonster 

I am wondering if there is a difference in amount too? I have my medical records and they increased pit every 30 minutes, and then kept turning it off, so I wonder if I had a lower amount if it were to be more manageable.

That's a good question. Since I was having a VBAC there was a limit to how much they could give me. I don't know what the actual dose was but I do know they never turned it up. They wanted to insert and internal monitor so they could increase it but I wouldn't let them. Like I said, with that I labored just fine for about 10 hours. It was only the last 2 hours that were painful, almost exactly the same as at home.

[Chloe'sMama]

I had a pit birth with DD1.  Water broke in the morning, by 3pm, no labor, so they cranked up the pit to 10... within 30 minutes I was doubled over, not breathing except for the 30 second breaks between contractions.  It was INTENSE.  I got the epi at around 9pm and started pushing almost immediately, no real pain relief from the epi.  DD1 was born at 10:29pm.

DD2, home birth... water broke at 2:30pm, contractions were noticeable at around 4... intense at 5:30 and I hit transition at around 6:45 pm... DD2 born at  7:29pm.  the last 45 minutes were intense, but it compared to the 6 hours without the epidural with DD1s birth.  I was still talking between contractions up to the point of transition (maybe 15 minutes total).  I would say that my labor and delivery for both girls was easy, but my unmediated home birth was wonderful!  

[CBEmomma]

I had pit, but wasn't induced, and then I had a NCB for my second. The second was by far easier and way less painful.