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?

After I had done that and pointed out the ctg to the inattentive midwife she freaked and pressed the alarms. The CTG returned to normal on its own though. Im not quite sure why I thought stopping the drip would help in that timescale, but what can I say, I was not thinking my best.

I remember that the line into my hand was incredibly painful, to the point that even during huuuuuuge contractions I was whinging to DH about how much my hand hurt

Didn't rip the bugger out though.

Because it's worth it in the end?

Didn't occur to me that the drip was anything to do with the pain. Apparantly I blacked out at one stage - all I remember was being conscious of incredible agony which went for a bit (black out) then came back in new waves of agony.

Looking at dd sitting on the sofa though it was worth every second

It never occured to me, although I did know it was causing the pain, because each time they turned it up, the pain increased.

I guess for the same reason that when I couldn't feel anything to push the baby out, it didn't occur to me to get them to turn the epidural down or off. Even though a friend had told me she'd had hers turned down and it was a good idea. Had I remembered this tip perhaps I might have been able to push properly and not needed forceps and massive episiotomies & tearing .

When you're treated like a patient in a gown in an unfamiliar environment with experts around, human psychology means we tend to behave in a relatively compliant, unquestioning and helpless way.

how come an induction drip is more painful than labour itself? which part of the drip is so painful? Is it the bit where the actual liquid is being fed into you or does it just make contractions more painful? Am confused as I have never experienced it..

It makes the contractions more frequent and intense from the start, instead of a gradual build up.

Because I was made to believe that once my waters were broken artificially, the baby had to be born come hell or high water otherwise there would be the risk of infection. The medic's words were: "once we have started this process, it will have to continue until we have a baby."

Yes, the baby was eventually born by crash CS because the drip resulted in my daughter going into distress.

Believe me, I did consider stopping the whole thing midway.

I didnt think the drip was as bad as I thought it would be, especially with all the stories I had read about it. I think thats the danger of reading things online, I had really worked myself up it would be completely awful based on other peoples experiences. It wasnt pleasant, but then I dont think childbirth is really. I didnt even notice the drip at all when I started contracting, and when they put it in I was thinking 'i cant even move my hand' but by the end I was using that hand to squeeze the midwife's and i didnt even notice it at all!

Contractions started off a bit 'ow' and did quickly become intense but tbh my second labour was like that naturally so for me this wasnt different at all. And baby was born just over an hour after it all started, so quick and (yes painful) but i only used G+A last 3 contractions.

Dont be frightened by what you read, every experience is different and I went in thinking it would be horrendous but it wasnt. Just focus on the outcome, your baby :)