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claudinator
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I'm sure others have probably said this, but you're going to want the epidural before things get unbearable.
Anyway, I got one very very early on w/ my induction. As soon as I felt any kind of discomfort, I buzzed the nurse station and said to bring the juice lol.
It's definitely a weird experience and you are confined to the bed, but I didn't think it was bad at all. Boring since I labored for so long, but not bad
The risk with that is though it can severely slow down labour, especially when strapped to the bed. Obviously with an induction it makes sense to have one early as you know labour is likely to be very intense and you're probably having help keeping contractions going, but any kind of pain relief does interfere and cause risks, obviously there are massive benefits to epidurals but if done too early it's hard to know if you're increasing the risk before needing the benefit. In the UK our epidurals are administered and used quite differently I gather, we don't tend to have them early on, we're normally sent away from hospital in the early stages (which I agree with).
With a spontaneous labour the best thing is absolutely to give it a bit of time first and then assess if an epidural is needed.
I understand your point, however.
Inductions are unpredictable. In Ireland if the mother is very over due by the 11days combined with the 3day induction via gels and sweeps. They usually give the combination of epi and pitocin as once the pitocin kicksin it's really intense.
In my case at 16days overdue, my doctor and I agreed the night before to do the combination, however my midwife chose to do it her way with no epidural it took 2hours for the pitocin to kick that's a ridiculous high dose, so high my heart failed and I went from 2cm to 9cm in 10minutes and resulted in vacumn because of exhaustion.
I absolutely understand where your coming from, but as the the anestiolagist and cardiac team said to me when they got my heart up and going again there is no need to be hero you won't a get a medal or a high honor this is your moment, your experience and you take what you need.