Induced or wait?

Actually induction doesn’t make it more painful. Natural spontaneous labour is extremely painful in itself. Induction just makes the process longer because you start off with the cervix closed up. If you’re very keen for a normal vaginal delivery, the success rate is usually higher if baby’s not too big. So you may really want to consider taking up the offer for induction:) In both cases (induced vs spontaneous), if labour doesn’t progress well or you really can’t push baby out, you would still be taken to the operating theatre for a C-section to get baby out safely. At the end of the day, as long as you and baby are healthy and safe, that’s the most important:)

The best person to talk to about this is your Gynae. The pain is the same for spontaneous and induced labour; it’s just that the progress may be too fast for induction compared to spontaneous. Either way, even if you do dilate but baby is too big or you couldn’t push, then you will still end up delivering via c-sect.

Talk to your gynae. Induced labour is painful because contractions are very near and if your cervix take long it will be a long labour. Best of luck

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