I was induced and thought labour was OK-ish, only had gas and air and pethadine. Didn't need an emergency C-section

My induction didn't go to section but it did end up a pretty nasty forceps delivery

I was induced due to pre eclamsia at 7pm and then by 11.15pm I was being rushed into emergency c section as babies heartrate was dropping drastically and I wasnt even in labour!
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I was induced, had 22 hours of labour and ended up with an emergency section.

I was induced and had a lovely natural birth after 22 hours

Induction makes this less possible because they are artificially forcing you into labour. It isn't natural for your body, it has no time to get used to contractions, build up endorphines or find a way of coping. Everything is medically managed.

I was induced twice,and had an amazing experience both times.

First time i don't think it was necessary and if i continued with my pregnancy for another 2 weeks it wouldnt've made any difference to the baby,just me as i was so uncomfortable and was slowly dilating,but my consultant decided to break my waters that day.
Secod time i wa having twins,had pre-eclampsia,blood transfusions,one twin wasnt growing properly and they waited for as long as they could and decided to induce me 5 weeks early.
Both babies were healthy and had no problems,so i was soooo glad that i had them then,who knows what could've happened if they stayed in longer.

Both my labors were fairly quick,5 hrs with only 2-3hrs in real pain. I loved every minute of it,and used gas & air both times (with twins i had epidural incase of c-section but it didnt work at all!)
i had all 3 of them naturally,no c-sections and the pain wasnt that bad either,obv i cant compare it to natural progressions labor but i got through it fine no screaming and shouting lol

I put yes, this was with my first child. I went into labour after a sweep but 24 hours of contractions nothing so they did the whole drip thing 12 hours later i had an emergency c sec for failure to progress.

I was induced and 25 hours later was begging for them to just cut her out. I was stuck on oxygen throughout the entire thing and had to lay on my side because the babies heartrate kept dropping. It was horrible. But worth I'd do it 100 times more for Emma.

this is just what happened to us. i went into natural labour but lo was side on (causing back labour) and passed a LOT of meconium, so i was induced to 'speed things up' because of the risk to him. took hours to make things anyhwere near regular. I didn't 'shout for' an epidural, but was rather forcefully persuaded when midwives felt I was struggling with the pain (after about 24 hours). Worst decision ever ... it caused me to faint, then caused LO's heartrate to drop right down then shoot over 200, this carried on for about 10-15 minutes. at this point he was still side on and still not engaged and they were so concerned they whisked me in to theatre and got him out within 3 minutes, he was quite poorly then and spent over a week in SCBU recovering.

So although I really regret the way it happened and wish I hadn't had an induction, or the epidural, it was really because of his distress that any of it happened. I would never choose to have any of these things, and was dead against it before labour.

After reading everyone's experiences it sounds like it is common for the baby's heart rate to drop after being induced doesn't it? I hadn't been aware of that and found it really traumatic. Did anyone else have to have a metal clamp thing attached to baby's head to monitor their heart and blood samples taken by scraping baby's head with a metal thing? Daisy had loads of little cuts on her head when she was finally born as they had to scarpe her head 9 times.