If you are about to go in for inducement for your first childbirth, a warning.
You should know it is quite common in medicine to lie to you in the form of omitting pertinent details, and this is no more obvious in the way they sugar-coat and present as straight forward the process of inducement. You should especially be wary if for some reason you are in a risk category and they are recommending scheduling an inducement.
Yes, what they tell you is true, if you are accelerating a pregnancy already presenting as ready to end. If you are not even dialating at all the odds that inducement will do anything other than wear down your will, destroy your sanity and stick you in a hospital until you consent to a C-Section, is unrealistic. This is what is going to happen. Here is what I recommend.
Wait until your pregnancy presents before going in, and be resistant to being lied to or bullied, let nature take its course, if your baby waits so long that your health or its size make natural childbirth risky, you can always have a c-section then. We did, but we never felt we had a chance at a natural childbirth because we were mislead and misinformed about the true nature of inducement when your body is not even preparing to give birth. Had we been given better information we may have waited at home another week, we were pressured because my wife was 36. I think this is why they idealized our expectations about inducement, and on the fourth day, while I was at the gym, they ambushed her, and I had to rush to get there in time for the birth.
Don’t let this happen to you, and for future generations of hopeful parents build social alliances and legal damage defense groups to penalize and hold to legal obligation that you be truthfully informed, including the real statistical risks and effectiveness of treatments and procedures. Anything else is unethical. What happened to us shouldn’t happen at all, it destroys peace and joy at what should be a joyous, but is remarkably stressful and need not any additional dramas and confusions, from such simple failures.
This is all I have to say on this matter, I am an advocate for patient rights and a health care system that cares for all people equally, and does so for the health of a society not financial gain as an incentive for excellence.
