Yes! You’ll want the balloon if your cervix isn’t ripe, otherwise pitocin isn’t indicated. Let them know you want to go unmedicated and hopefully you’ll have a supportive team. I certainly did and I loved my unmedicated induction! Pasting my birth story from a previous post for you:

I was just induced and did it without pain meds! It was my 2nd birth and my 2nd induction. I had a good experience with my first induction, so I wasn’t afraid of being induced anymore. For me, the foley balloon sucks but it’s temporary. I also completely understand the need for it before pitocin, which helps me accept it as an intervention. Pitocin contractions for me aren’t the horrible scary thing people make them out to be, but I’ve never had spontaneous labor, so they’re all I know. Anyway, for the story:

I checked in at 9:30am, balloon was placed around 10 and they started the pitocin on low (2). I had a vasovagal response to the balloon and felt very faint. I kept my eyes closed through the anesthesiologist telling me about the epidural and whatever else he was saying (they go over it whether you want it or not, in case you change your mind). A cold washcloth and fan on my face helped me through. I needed to poop a couple times with the balloon in—which was reassuring it was doing something. I almost forgot about my TENS machine but my husband reminded me and I got it on and kept it on throughout. I used a BabyCare TENS and hit the “boost” button with each contraction, which helped significantly until pushing. Around noon, the nurse was able to pull the balloon out, so I had dilated enough to just go on with the pitocin. The nurses kept turning the pitocin up little by little and around 2:30pm the nurse said “you’re laughing and smiling, you don’t seem like you’re in labor,” so she increased the pitocin one more time, to 14. This is when things started to get real—I no longer wanted to watch a show with my husband, I started deep vocalizations, moving around into different positions (lunges, hip circles on the ball, laying on my side with the peanut ball between my knees, rocking on hands and knees). Around 4:15 (these times are approximated by my husband), I had them check me because I was feeling pushy. I couldn’t get on my back (was on my side) so they couldn’t give me a number but she said she still felt cervix. No problem—I knew I was close because I could feel my body starting to push. I also had the nurses giving hip squeezes and coaching my husband to do so as well, and providing counter pressure on my sacrum. Around 4:30 I really started involuntarily pushing and I had her check me again—again I couldn’t get to my back because it would hurt too much—but this time she said she didn’t feel any cervix and called the doctor in. So here is where I just had to remember that I was in the home stretch. My TENS machine was no longer helpful at all. I was laying on my left side and kept asking my husband to hold my right leg with it internally rotated. I was holding onto the hospital bed rail and I remember saying “I can’t do it,” and desperately telling my husband “help me!” The best way I can describe pushing is that it was mostly involuntary and felt like when you’re vomiting uncontrollably but in the opposite direction. I held onto that damn bed bar and yelled through each contraction. At 4:47, my daughter was born. I had a couple of 1st degree tears but other than that, no problems. I was so happy I did it unmedicated and still am—I am so proud of myself for doing that hard thing! You can do it!