@yogahh my ob required constant monitoring once pitocin started, I was able to get up all I wanted with the foley as I wasn't connected to anything other than that until my pit started. I asked for their mobile monitor the second I got checked in the night before my induction started so once pitocin started I had a wireless fetal monitor which allowed me to get up and walk around the halls and roll on my birthing ball to my heart's content.
It's usually the epidural that prevents you from being mobile @yogahh not the other induction stuff. I had the foley and then was sent home overnight. I just taped it to my leg so I could walk around easier.
@babyfmama it depends on how dilated/effaced you are when they induce. I was neither when I was induced so got the foley, they broke my water and then pitocin was started later to speed things up and I actually ended up progressing on my own after a tiny bit of pitocin (they turned it off when LOs heart rate dropped somewhere around 7 hours in and never restarted it). Sometimes once things get started your body takes over as it would have naturally
Maybe it's just my hospital but once the pitocin was in I was not allow to move about since they did fetal monitoring the whole time the pit was on. Just an FYI...
Maybe it's just my hospital but once the pitocin was in I was not allow to move about since they did fetal monitoring the whole time the pit was on. Just an FYI...
That's a good point. I clearly forgot that part. I had wireless monitors anyway so I could've walked around if I had wanted to
@Charla1224 I was induced with my first and it was 24 hours from checking into the hospital until I delivered. I wasn't dilated at all when I got there.
Being induced again with this one on Monday, my doc says 2nd babies go more quickly!
Ladies who were induced, What was the timeline on your labor & delivery? Will this take days or hours?
I'm getting induced on Monday at 7 am. I was told that LO should arrive by early afternoon.
However, it seems like timing depends in large part on how favorable your cervix is. For instance, if it's high, thick, and closed, it will take substantially longer than if you're 5 cm, fully effaced, and very low.
Also, while being induced can speed up the labor process, it will go faster if unmedicated than if you get an epidural.
@Charla1224 mine started at 10pm on Saturday and baby arrived at 5:54pm on Sunday. The epidural could slow the process but I found it was helpful to be able sleep and rest up during that time so it was worth it to me.
@Charla1224 It's probably very different for everyone, but I went in at 8:00 pm on a Monday and had her at 3:45 pm on Wednesday. She's my 2nd baby, 1st induction. My first labor was crazy long too. In my case, the epidural turned it all around and sped everything up, but I waited until I was at a 6 to get it.
@Charla1224 mine was 15 hours from point of breaking my waters (I had the foley too 12 hours prior to that but don't count that in my hours because it can be left in for any length of time)
I went in at 7 am to be induced and DS was born at 2:06 pm. This is my second child and I was at 4 cm and 70% effaced when I got there so I'm sure those two factors helped! After they broke my water is when things really progressed.
I was induced earlier in the week. I was worried it wouldn't go well because I was only 1cm when they started and he still hadn't dropped at all, but my dr thought since this would be my third birth that it would go okay. I got the cervidil placed at 7pm and was supposed to have that in until 7am. They wanted me restricted to the bed that whole time and monitored, but it didn't work out well because little one was sunny side up and it was extremely painful to be in the bed. They ended up letting me be around the bed but I couldn't move other than that. Standing was the best position for me, so that was hard. The cervidil worked a littlle better than expected though and put me into full on labor. They pulled the cervidil at 4am and little one was here at 641am. So only 11 hours start to finish- still shorter than my daughters delivery which was 14 hours. Pain wise it was worse than I expected but that may have been in large part to him being sunny side up as well. If I had been allowed to move more it would have been a fairly positive experience.
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Re: Induction positive stories please...
@babyfmama it depends on how dilated/effaced you are when they induce. I was neither when I was induced so got the foley, they broke my water and then pitocin was started later to speed things up and I actually ended up progressing on my own after a tiny bit of pitocin (they turned it off when LOs heart rate dropped somewhere around 7 hours in and never restarted it). Sometimes once things get started your body takes over as it would have naturally
What was the timeline on your labor & delivery? Will this take days or hours?
DD: 05/14/16
Being induced again with this one on Monday, my doc says 2nd babies go more quickly!
However, it seems like timing depends in large part on how favorable your cervix is. For instance, if it's high, thick, and closed, it will take substantially longer than if you're 5 cm, fully effaced, and very low.
Also, while being induced can speed up the labor process, it will go faster if unmedicated than if you get an epidural.
hours prior to that but don't count that in my hours because it can be left in for any length of time)