I have also had both and would shoose another natural birth in a heart beat. My induced birth was horrible so I don't know if I could be a good sounding board. I also went from 0-100 with the pain in 10mins and was in that amount of pain for 23hours. I had gas and one shot of pethdine which made me vomit and heave for about an hour afterwards. It truly was horrible and if I wasn't so terrorfied of a c/s I probably would have given in when my ob first suggested it after about 12hrs. But I was too scared of the surgery and pain and I stuck it out til DD was finally born after 3 hours of pushing and a rather large epesiotomy. Afterwards I was so swollen and damaged down there that I had to have a catheter for about 3 days I think.
I would choose my natural birth in an instant over my induced birth. It so much easier and I handled the pain on my own. I didn't even realise it was true labour til I got to the hospital and the mid wife told me I was 8cm dialted!! They artificially broke my waters and DS was born with in the hour, with only 3 pushes! The pain was nothing compared to the pain I had in my induced birth.
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