I have not read Kelly's article as yet and i admitt that i am far from properly informed regarding the types and side effects of induction.
All i know is my own experience.
Right from my first pregnancy i had this mind set that i did not want to be induced. I'm not too sure why but i think it was because i'd heard stories of how much 'worse' they were and i definately wanted to experience natural labour.
With DS1 i did, went into labour all by myself and DS was born 23 hours later.
With DS2 a week before i was 'due' and on the morning of a dr appt my waters broke. At this stage i felt no pain at all and knew that it could be still some time till my bub arrived. My waters had a 'tinge' to them but as i'd never had waters break early before i wasn't too sure if this was right or not. At my dr appt i was told that i had merconium in my waters and i had to go pretty much straight to the hospital to be induced. My first reaction was NO but i also was under the understanding that merconium isn't good and i had to do what was right for my baby.
By the time i got to the hospital i was starting to feel contrations and in the labour ward i was having my own contrations for about an hour before they put the drip in to 'speed it up'.... I think?? I did feel a huge change in my contations once the drip was in and things did go pretty quickly from there. Approx 2 hrs later my baby boy was born BUT my feelings tell me that i was in labour naturally with a little help from the drip. I didn't feel out of control and i have positive feelings from both of my births.
Through both births i only ever took gas.
Obvioulsy my situation is quite different to what you have been contemplating but in the end my induction expeience wasn't as bad/scary as i thought it was going to be and i'm still as proud of myself in giving birth to DS2 as i was to DS1.
Again i hope that with my #3 it's all natural but only time will tell.
I'm really hoping your contrations continue and your little one is on it's way xoxooxox
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