Did you have PITOCIN during labor?

What is/means PITOCIN?

I didn't have pitocin during my first birth, but did with my second. I wouldn much rather have not had it. But, my doctor was going out of town and wanted to be here for the birth.

No, I had an epidural though.

I was given Pitocin for all three of my births. The first was to help things along, I guess that it is just something doctors like to order with a epideral. The second and third I was given Pitocin afterwards and when I asked why the nurse told me it was to help my uterus contract back down.

I did. No reason other than to speed things along. I went in for a visit to my gyno and I was 8 cm dialated but had not gone into labor. So, she stripped the membranes. I went to the hospital. They have to break my water. And then they gave my pitosin. So my daughter was hurried along.

Yes because my water broke and we couldn't get contractions started with walking, nipple stimulation and several other methods so I was put on pitocin for about 45 minutes until they started and then it was turned off.

They did a stress test on me and didn't get the results that they wanted so they decided to induce labor. They gave me the pitocin and the contractions came fast and hard. I would never let them do that again. It was so much worse than when I just went into labor on my own.

i was just not dialating fast enough. after 3 failed inductions, it was time to get things moving. i went from 3 to 10 in no time :)

I was induced at 38 and a half weeks so yes I had pitocin. I was induced because I had a huge cyst on one of my ovaries and the sooner the baby came out the sooner they could take care of it. They ended up having to remove my ovary, but the cyst was benign so that was good.

Yes I had pitocin for both my girls. I jsut wasnt progressing on my own so i had to go that root. it worked like a charm though

I started my labor for my first child on Wednesday afternoon. The contractions were hard and 5 minutes apart so we went to the hospital that night. They sent me home Thursday late morning because I wasn't dialating. I continued with mild labor as they had given me a pain killer. By Friday night I was having hard fast pains again so we went to the hospital again. Nothing was moving...so they decided by Saturday early that I would get pitocin. By the time they gave it to me it was late morning or early afternoon. Then the pains got harder so I had epidural. When they gave me the pitocin I was only 1.5 cm after 3.5 days of labor! By the evening I was ready to push. My son was born around 7:31 pm. Three and a half days, close to four...the longest wait of my life. Makes me wonder why they didn't give me the pitocin sooner... My second birth I didn't need it, the baby came in only about 12 hours.

whats that? :S

Don´t know what is PITOCIN!

no i had the first two natural with out anything and i had the last two c-sec

Yes I did. I was induced with all 3 of my kids.

I did with my first son. I was having contractions (hard ones!) but not dilating. FINALLY, given pitocin and a little after that breaking my water my first son was born. I would say no complications but they had to use the vacuum on him. Something about when I pushed he would start coming out but when I stopped he would creep back in. I guess he wasn't ready to come out yet!

I had pitocin when I was in labor with my son because I had been in active labor for awhile & suddenly stopped progressing. I think it was at about 6 or 7 cm. When I had my daughter they gave me something to make my contractions stop, because I was only 33 weeks along, and they wanted to transfer us to a different hospital. It eased up my contractions, but not enough to ease up the stress she was under, so I had her by c-section & she was transported to the other hospital a couple of hours later.

I dont know wat r u talking about?

i didnt but my best friend did cz she didnt dilate..

Yes, with my first daughter I did. They did it because they wanted the contractions to come stronger and more frequently. I had been in labor for quite a while by that time, and they really wanted to move things along.