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"Induction of Labor: Everything you need to know" - with Dr. Sara Kostant

Healthful Woman Podcast

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What Is the Difference Between an Epidural and a Spontaneous Induction?

If she wants an epidural before we start, great. We can put in that pidurl, then put in the balloon. And so ten it's not a decision she has to make before she comes in. She can decide on the spot or whatever. Sometimes either the musiprostle or the balloon will put someone into labor, and then she's contracting on her own, and we don't have to do anything. But i would say that's the exception. Most people will end up getting petosin, which is the, a sort of commercial name for oxitosin,. The base stimulates the uer to contract. It's the same thing that her brain makes naturally

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