Yes it does. The main thing you need to do is to make sure you stand your ground and know your stuff and not just agree with everything the doctor wants-ask questions, ask why etc before you ever agree on something a major an induction or anything else concerning. It depends also really what you mean of "normal delivery" as your baby can still be born through the vagina canal yet things maybe done like having forceps or ventouse or there may just be a lot of intervention going on with too many procedures being done which then interferes. I am not sure when and why your doctor is wanting to induce you. Is it because you have reached your ESTIMATED due date already? if so then that is really not a valid reason to be induced as it is NORMAL to go to about 42 weeks of gestation with no problems so unless there is a real medical reason why they need to get the baby out as you and/or your babys health is in great jeopardy then i would refuse an induction until you are AT LEAST 10 days overdue. HERE is a link about induction so you know all the pro's and cons and risks etc.....http://bellybelly.com.au/articles/birth/induction-of-labour-to-induce-or-not-induce
Did you know that only around 3-5% of babies are actually born on their due date, with the majority being born anytime from 38 to 42 weeks, which is considered full term. It’s a good idea to just state your ‘due date’ at 42 weeks and not 40 weeks.
According to a study on ‘The length of uncomplicated human gestation’ by the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, they found:
“For primiparas (first child), the median duration of gestation from assumed ovulation to delivery was 274 days, significantly longer than the predicted 266 days. For multiparas (more than one child), the median duration of pregnancy was 269 days, also significantly longer than the prediction. Moreover, the median length of pregnancy in primiparas proved to be significantly longer than that for multiparas”
****Here is a list of a couple of things you can state in your birth plan or to your doctor and support people in order to have less intervention during your induction (that is if you have one)...
# Make sure that pitocin (the IV) is the thing they use at a LAST resort.
# So before that they should use the gel on your cervix and give it TIME to work (more than just a couple of hours) and they could put another dosage of that again
# Then if nothing is happening and your cervix is open enough (and your baby is engaged) they can break your waters and that once again should be given TIME for things to happen (more than a couple of hours) and if this induction isn't being done for any medical reason then you should be able to go home and come back 24 hours after your waters have been broken to receive the lowest dose of pitocin and for it to be increased gradually and slowly AND for the cannula to be put in your arm and not your hand so you have more freedom of movement.
The reason WHY i say that pitocin should be the last resort as it is the strongest of artificial induction there is and also it can be upped in the dosages so doctors when inducing (particularly in America) they "like" to use the pitocin the most as they seem to disregard the risks of intervention happening yet it makings things progress faster (weather in a good sense of bad) which means less time for them.
With piocin it causes much harder, stronger and shorter interval contractions unlike any woman would experience during a spontaneous labour. So each timeyou have a contraction it is squeezing your uterus much harder, longer with shorter intervals than suppose to which then is contracting your baby and then deprives them of theyre roxygen rich blood source which then sends them into distress and then a csection OR sometimes because the contractions literally are unbearable (not like with normal spontaneous contractions which are) a woman will usually NEED an epidural after a certain point of dosage is on the pitocin so then the mother is numb from the waist down and cannot feel the urge to push (which does have it's disadvantages) and also she cannot get up and push and is stuck to push on her back WHICH pushing on your back making it much harder for you to push and it also makes the pelvis the smallest possible so often the baby will get stuck behind your coccyx (tailbone) as you are flat on your back and your babys head cannot get past that so then an assisted delivery is needed with forceps or ventouse. Pretty much every time a baby gets "stuck" it can easily be fixed if the mother did/was able to get off her back and get into an upright or all fours position.
I highly highly HIGHLY suggest that you rent or buy "The Business of Being Born" documentary it is a MUST see and will open your eyes a little. So doesn't matter what your state of mind is on childbirth weather you plan an epidural or want a homebirth it is still a MUST see. You can rent it from their official site, some places in America have it in video stores, i know some people download it or you can buy it.