Can you be induced for contractions?

Love • Married 💍 Baby coming November 11

I’ve been having contractions for a whole week now ! They gave me medicine to stop them and i just got off to see if I’m stable off of them , and I’m not having killer contractions again 🥺 is this putting the baby at risk? I’m only one centimeter i just want to make the right decision it’s hard to get a second doctors opinion because I’m in a non English speaking country and the translator is not always here.