What stops women in pain from ripping out the induction drip?

[StarlightMcKenzie]

Or do some of them do it?

I'm almost certain I would if it was too high, having experience a birth where I was in so much pain I didn't care about either the baby's life or mine.

So does it happen?

I can't speak for anyone else but I didn't because I was frightened of the consequences of not being in labour several days after my waters started leaking. It was my first birth and I was tired, scared and basically not confident enough to question things.

Oh I can see why it isn't a good idea. But doesn't survival instinct kick in at some point and you'll just do anything to end it?

the same reason why women in labour would let anyone including the milkman and his horse put their fingers up their vagina.

they think they have to.

and labour does do ver strange things to a woman's brain.

I have never known anyone to deliberately rip it out.

i've never had it happen. can see your point though. why? maybe something to do with weird primal instincts and birth.

Wierd. Perhaps I wouldn't then.

I just have this awful recollection (which is more like PTSD so may not even be accurate) of crawling on the floor having thrown myself off the bed due to thinking the bed was causing the pain and trying to eat me and trying to think of what I could do to end it. I was 2 cm at that point with a back to back.

I just honestly didn't give a shit about the baby, nor did I when he was born. I just can't imagine I would have left in a line CAUSING that pain.

i didn't really associate the pain with the drip at the time so it wouldn't have occurred to me. the pain is associated with the baby and you know that for the pain to stop the baby needs to come out......
i kind of withdrew into myself so that i wasn't really that aware of what was going on in the real world....and that includes the monitors/staff/drips etc

If it's a first birth you don't know whether the pain you are experiencing is "normal" IYSWIM. I felt like the pain level couldn't possibly be "right" but for all I knew that was just the deal when trying to persuade 8lbs of baby to make for the light.

Interrestingly my second birth disabused me of the notion that a natural birth couldn't be as painful as an induction but somehow I could cope with the pain second time round. I couldn't cope with the induction so had an epidural.

I'll let you take a punt as to which one ended up in an operating theatre.

I did!!
Not the syntocin drip, though. Just the antibiotics drip (due to GBS). After the baby was born I noticed my left hand with a big plaster and blood on it and asked whatever happened to my hand 'cause I had no recollection of it and someone said I had pulled the drip out of my hand in the midst of it!!

i know i shrieked like a mad banshee at the midwife to take of the CTG. this was in the days when everyone (even low riskers) had to have CTGs.
god knows what i'd have done to a drip line.

i really don't know. does that subconscious instinct to birth the baby overtake the more rational desire to stop it?

I did have a woman accidently pull her drip out in between first and second twin once, that was interesting!

Oh no. That can't have been good.

So, it doesn't happen deliberately then. Blimey!

DH accidentally ripped mine out. Fuck knows how. Some clumsy panicked stumble over my arm - I was ready to kill him :o.

But no, I would never have ripped it out myself. I just wanted the baby out at that stage - after the lateness and the hours and hours in hospital and the night "sleeping" opposite the woman who shouted "make the pain go away, David" for hours - I would have eaten the induction drip if it would have helped.

LOL. Poor woman but how awful for you to have to listen to that all night!

It's become a family joke - whenever anyone hurts themselves we have to say "make the pain go away, David" :o. But yes, can't have been nice for her. I was too tired/pregnant/hormonal to care at the time - this was DC3.

Because even though the contractions were hurting like hell, I knew that I had to keep having the contractions in order to have my baby. I also knew the sooner the baby arrived, the better.

I was in labour and in pain. I hadn't morphed into a deranged loon.

I wanted to. Then my clumsy midwife did it for me while I was pushing... Was not pleasant

I was in so much pain i couldn't move or speak. It was like being hit by a train and i just lay there. Top tip: gas and air is not really adequate pain relief for a drip induction.

I really hope that I don't have to be induced this time as you may have planned the seed! During DS2's birth I was adamant they stopped it and let me go home, I really meant it and am still upset no one respected my wishes I didn't think to stop it myself

I just reached up and turned it off. No need to rip out a venflon when you can just stop the drip from flowing.

Epidural!

I think I would have if I got to a stage like I was in my labour where I knew that if I was physcially capable of getting to the window I would have jumped out of it to end the pain!

Yes, I was aiming for the window as opposed to the removal of offensive drugs.

Cats, what happened then?

I was induced and yes it was very very painful, but I never really reached an animal scrabbling, mindless terror stage of pain. I was still me and I was giving birth and yes it hurt but it was about getting my baby safely into the world.