Our experience w/ Cytotec

by Leanna Taylor
(Mooresville, NC US)

My baby and I went into the hospital perfectly fine and may have never walked out due to this drug.

The sad part is, I didn't even NEED to be induced. We were forced to check in that Wednesday morning to be administered the drug or else we would be dropped as a patient.

Yes, a female doctor looked me in the face when I was 40 weeks and 4 days pregnant and said these exact words to me if we didn't check in 2 days later; "no one in this practice will see you."

I was a birth researcher long before my induction and have learned even more since then, but at the time I felt out of options.

I started to bleed heavily after the second 1/4 dose of the drug was administered to me. My husband became so upset when talk of a possible c-section began since this is far from what we wanted.

We all knew it was the drug, but no professional on the labor and delivery side wanted to admit it.
(The next morning a pediatric nurse confessed her concerns over the drug w/ me.)

The doctor was called in and she broke my water. This must have caused the Cytotec to be washed out b/c much of the bleeding stopped.

An intense labor (hyper-stimulated uterus) had commenced however and 3 hours later, our first child, Ellie, was born.

By the grace of God we did not suffer an embolism, a ruptured uterus, a hysterectomy, or death for either one of us.

I credit our lives and our health not to the medical community. In this circumstance, are alive DESPITE their actions. The prayers of our friends and families, the help of our doula, our prior birth education, and the help of the Holy Spirit are what saved us.