Does getting induced feel more painful than naturally going into labor?

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Does getting induced feel more painful than naturally going into labor?

cassie • Sun, Feb 23

Does getting induced feel more painful than naturally going into labor? I’m 34 weeks and have GDM, I don’t have an US until 38 weeks and doc thinks baby is big but has not said anything yet but to expect it.

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Are you planning on getting an epidural? 8 was induced with both kids and felt no pain. They started me on pitocin and I requested an epidural when I decided I wanted it.

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I’m on my 3rd pregnancy. 
1st - induced. 
Worst experience EVER. Contractions came on OUT OF NOWHERE at FULL STRENGTH. 
The labor was slow. Everything happened so fast at the beginning though, something caused the epidural not to work. Lucky me felt everything. 
I screamed for hours. Cried for hours til I ran out of tears. But through my lip. 
My body had the urge to push before it was actually ready to push. 
I pushed anyways with a midwife after the dr got pissed because I said I couldn’t stop the pushing. She said “fine. Go ahead and exhaust yourself “ 
And that’s what I did. It was time to push and I was so exhausted I pushed my babies head out then was in and out of it. I couldn’t do anymore. They cut me without numbing and the midwife literally stuck her arms in and pulled my baby out. They had called a code where the pediatrician and tons of nurses ran in. Baby wasn’t breathing and had spent a long time with her head out. They had to revive her. 
So baby number 2 ! It was literally the easiest thing ever. Lol I could give birth every day if it was as easy as this. They offered induction and I refused. At 40 weeks 3 days I had a sweep. The next day I went into the BEST labor. I was laid down for bed and FElt BARELY the “period type” cramps/ dull aching. They were lasting about 30 seconds every 5 mins. But not painful at all. I was gonna go to bed and call my dr in the morning cause I thought this surely wasn’t it because I was comparing my pain to the first time I gave birth. Anyways I had to pee and there was  tooons of bright red blood so I went ahead in. I sat through signing all the paperwork and everything fine lol they tried to wheelchair me back and I wanted to walk. The contractions were constant but didn’t hurt even a little. They checked me and I was already ready for an epidural. I got it. It worked and I slept for 8 hours. They woke me up at 8 and said it was time. 3 pushes and he was out ! No pain, no pressure, he was handed straight to me. I pray this labor is exactly like my 2nd.

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I can only tell you my experience with being induced as I only have one child. My induction was hard and painful. Contractions came out of no where and without any breaks between them. 
 
I always said I wanted to try to give birth without an epidural, but when the contractions started and didn’t stop anymore I got an epidural pretty quick. 
Unfortunately the epidural didn’t take so I had to get a second one. That one worked and at that point it got better. I didn’t feel the contractions anymore till I was ready to push. 
If you have to be induced it can be a totally different experience for you but even if it’s not, you’ll get through it and at the end you’ll have your beautiful baby in your arms and that will make you forget it all

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For me its wasn't the fact that it was more painful. It was more that I went from 0 pain until 7 centimeters to the worst pain with in minutes. There was no gradual work up in pain like in natural labor. But I've heard women say they're induction felt no different from natural. I really think it depends on your body. And also your doctors.

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I was induced with pitocin at 39 weeks 6 days with my son it was my first pregnancy.. no epidural or pain meds, adrenaline is one heck of a drug though 😅 the cramping with being induced is tough, but if you get an epidural that goes well shouldn’t be too bad, but I’ve heard stories of them falling out and what not.. just be mentally prepared for anything! I didn’t plan on not getting an epidural, my blood count was too low and they said it wasn’t safe to do one for me.. good luck momma!

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It was soooo painful . As soon as they broke my 2 water bags at 7:41am, I didnt have a break between contractions. I felt like my ass was going to fall out and i was only like 2cm dialated.
I couldnt breath and I had tachycardia and my sons O2 was dropping and heart rate. 
They were trying to give me the epidural but wasnt sure if they could
Had an emergency C section and my son born at 9:41am was in the NICU only after 2 hours .
Worst experience ever and I was alone..
The nurse was terrible told me to shut up and be quiet because i was being too loud..
If i ever have more kids, I'm DEFINITELY WAITING.

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I don’t think it feels much different then naturally going into labor. Like the previous poster said, if you’re getting an epidural you won’t feel much. I do think that being induced has a greater chance of complications (likelihood of you having to have a c-section) because some women’s bodies just don’t want to progress and they are in labor for hours and hours which puts stress on the baby. But either way you will have a beautiful baby at the end. So it all depends on your preference.

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yes bc you’re going from 0-100 with drugs making your body go into labor.
Acupuncture works to naturally induce you as your due date approaches

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I think it’s not about the fact that they are more or less painful it’s the fact that they come out of the blue and extremely close together is painful. 
This is from my experience as my water broke at 37 weeks but my contractions did not start on there own so I had to be induced 24 hours of contractions not even 1 minuet apart and no pain medication yes I thought my soul was being taken from my body 😂

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If with Pitocin then yes in my experience. 1st labor cervidil and Pitocin and epidural but was still in alot of pain. 2nd cryotec and no time for Pitocin or epidural. Was less pain and only was intense once I got to transition and that only last an hr. 3rd cryotec again and no Pitocin again and went even faster than second.

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