Yeah, not that bad, sure. I remember the difference between pitocin and natural labor. That’s why I never want it near me again.

I’m willing to bet that it was a male OB.

Well if that isn’t straight from the horse’s mouth…

I birthed my first in a hospital with pitocin and it was a nightmare. Birthed my second and third in the hospital and it wasn’t nearly as bad. I guess it was all in my head though.

But yeah, in general labor IS worse in the hospital that I will say.

So, um, WHY are we supposed to give birth in the hospital if labor is worse there?
No offense to those who do deliver in hospitals, but someone sounds as if he’s talking out of both sides of his mouth.
And the pitocin thing? After my 26-hour-labor, I was very glad that we were at home and avoided the whole augmentation idea. Not that I’ve ever had pitocin, but it just doesn’t make sense to me and I wanted to stay as far away from it as possible.

Take it from someone who’s had two of each, regular labor is fun compared to labor with Pitocin.
And, yeah, if it’s worse in the hospital, why does he advocate that we go there?!!

I think he was trying to say that women are too stupid to figure out that the advanced stages of labor (after you’ve gotten to the hospital) are harder than the earlier stages of labor (before you go to the hospital), so when the contractions get worse as we progress, we dim-wittedly blame the Pitocin. So no, the artificial hormone we’re dumping into your body in huge amounts to force you into unnaturally strong and fast labor is not causing the pain, that’s just ’cause you’re making progress! Now shut up, take your epidural, and stop being such a baby!

(Oh, and in an hour when we rush in to tell you that your baby is in distress and you need a c-section, the Pitocin didn’t cause that, either. Promise.)

Good golly. I had an unmedicated birth with 7 hours of pitocin – but it wasn’t that bad. My contractions were just extremely painful and one right on top of the other because I was in a hospital is all.

It’s like these OBs are trying so hard to convince these women of something that the logic totally escapes them. That is, if they had any to begin with.

I had a great experience with pitocin. It wasn’t bad at all. It’s called labor for a reason, so it didn’t feel good…

This was my quote. I politely declined on the induction that he was pushing on me and said we’ll see how it goes. I left the doctor’s office vowing that I would never have another baby with this doctor. Thankfully my baby was born while he was on vacation.

My second child was born at home. He was right, it was better out of the hospital.

While I agree that a med free birth is best, I do NOT agree that pitocin automatically means labor will be worse *or* mean more complications. I went into labor naturally with #1, the ctx were absolutely horrible and ended up with a c/s. I was induced with #’s 2 and 3 and had VBACs. The ctx were SOOOOOO much easier with #2 and 3. #3 was ridiculously easy. I was updating my website through contractions and he was posterior to boot!

Every labor is different, period, so to say that pitocin always makes it worse is simply opinion. The particular delivery may have been worse if it had been natural, too. I believe positioning has more to do with it than anything, which may be why it seems pitocin makes it worse. If you are inducing, it may just be that baby wasn’t ready and not in position yet! I often wonder how painless delivering #3 would have been he had been in proper position.