"…It Causes REAL Contractions."

“Pitocin doesn’t cause unnatural contractions. It causes REAL contractions.”

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Colleen had this to say, Sep 10, 2009 @ 6:26 pm (Quote)

lol. yeah sure it does. if contractions normally start in transition… and end in c-sections.

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Kat had this to say, Sep 12, 2009 @ 9:39 pm (Quote)

That’s funny. I got told the exact same lie by a nurse. She actually said they were no different. a few hours of sheer agony later and my unmedicated birth plans were a distant memory.

Several NON-pitocin labors later I am here to tell you, pit contractions are “just like” natural labor contractions in the same way a fire truck is “just like” a little red wagon. I never “needed” any medication during a non-pitocin labor, personally. Maybe having the pitocin nightmare as a comparison helped. Ha!

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BirthingBeautifulIdeas had this to say, Sep 13, 2009 @ 10:52 am (Quote)

I know, it’s AMAZING that for millions of years, women gave birth without ever having real contractions!!!

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Smrt Mama had this to say, Sep 21, 2009 @ 8:01 am (Quote)

This was mine! Same OB told me epidurals can’t affect the baby, because they don’t cross the placenta…they way I could be sure that was true was because if epidurals got into your bloodstream, you’d die.

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pewiedee02 had this to say, Sep 30, 2009 @ 6:22 am (Quote)

Umm… I was 40 & 6/7 when I was induced. If I knew what the pit was going to do, I never would have let them start it. I was contracting on my own and they would have kept me if I had shown up at L&D anyway.

I think that it does take a ‘bad’ birth to realize just how forceful you have to be with doctors and nurses AND my midwife to get what you want from your own birthing experience.

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