“Pit to Distress” - Your Ticket to an “Emergency” Cesarean? 1
Although labor inductions are sometimes necessary for medical 
reasons/emergencies, our culture has been putting more and more mothers and babies in danger due to the abuse of this method when unnecessary. What is especially shocking is reading a recent article about the overuse of pitocin (one of the main drugs used to induce labor) to the point where it is intentionally administered in the highest dose possible to purposefully cause fetal distress so that the doctor has a reason to perform a c-section. Not only does this put the mother in danger of rupturing her uterus (especially if she is aiming to have a VBAC), but the danger of the oxygen deprivation that this is causing the fetus is quite alarming. And unfair. The term for this procedure is “Pit to Distress”. And yes, it is happening. Please be aware of this and educate yourself. I advise you to read this link below about the procedure from the Unnecesarean website.
I was induced with pitocin and about 8 hours after being induced Kassidi ( my daughter) heart rate kept dropping and she was having a hard time breathing there for having to have an emegancy c-section…. i didnt know the medicine could do that