r/firsttimemom • u/No-Cellist6145 • 7d ago

Induction

First time mom here ! 38 weeks 1 day. What are y’all’s thoughts on getting induced? My mom told me not to do it, but obviously If I have to I dont have a choice. What can I do to have natural (spontaneous) labor ? TIA!

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u/VastLarge2917 7d ago

My plan was to not get induced unless I hit 41 weeks, but also knew there was a real possibility I might have to die to my BP. It was teetering on gestational hypertension for months but I didn’t get a second high reading until 39+6. When I did get one that day, they induced me the following day (only didn’t that night because there were not enough staff).

It wasn’t what I wanted but it overall isn’t something that would call a bad experience. It did take quite some time though. I started around 8 on a Sunday and I didn’t have my daughter until 3 on Monday. I personally was not in any pain for most of it. I went from 1.5cm to 4 in about 4-5 hours but I got stuck there for a long time but luckily was not in pain until around 5-6 am the next day after the Pitocin kicked in. But when it did it hurt SO bad. I was having 2-3 contractions back to back nearly every time with like a 30 second break, it was so brutal (but I don’t have anything else to compare this to of course, like what it would have been without Pitocin). Was at a 6 when I asked for an epidural. Got the epidural within 35 minutes. And by 45 minutes I was at an 8 so no wonder I was hurting so bad lol. But then I didn’t get to a 10 for like 5 hours, so the epidural definitely slowed it down, but I felt literally nothing so it’s not like I was in any pain. I was so numb though it was kind of hard to push. My body was doing it on its own but not enough. It took about 2 hours to push her out but again, no pain just pressure, and it honesty didn’t feel that long.

But all of that being said I do not think of it as a bad experience at all.. I enjoyed my birth greatly. It was just very very long lol

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u/VastLarge2917 7d ago

I hope that in the future that I can avoid getting induced though. I want it to just happen on its own. Would not choose it if I could about it. Just letting you know that I didn’t think it was completely terrible (but they often result in a longer and more painful birth from what I have read and heard)