What happens when you get induced?

k so I'm getting induced in a few hours and I can't sleep. And it just dawned on me that I have absolutely NO idea how they are going to induce me or what's going to happen tomorrow. What happened with you ladies?

I got a pitocin drip. It did not work for me.I was far enough dilated that my doc decided to try breaking my waters. Put me in labor IMMEDIATELY! 3 hours and 5 minutes later my son was born.

Yo uwill go into the hopistal they will put you on the monitors and take vitals....do your admission then the doctor will come in and assess you and an IV will get started on you. At that time they will (if you are dialated which I'm assuming you are) they will take an "hook" and break your bag of waters and then start you on pitocin through your IV. They will keep bumping up the pitocin to get you in a good contraction pattern and the rest is history...you either get pain meds or not, dialate to 10cm, and push out your baby!

I got an IV with pitocin, then a balloon thingy they put up beside my cervix to help me dialate and i got my water broke

When I got induced they did a pitocin drip. After a few hours I wasn't starting to dialate so they put a baloon catheter in (a baloon that is filled with water that they insert into your vagina to press on the cervix). and they broke my water the rest of the way. That was about it.

I watch too much TV.

 

1. If your cervix isn't ripe, they will usually try and use a ripening agent (cervadil) to help it along... If it is, they won't. (If they do use this, the total process could be a couple days... )

2. Pitocin via IV will be given to you to start contractions - they usually start it off light, and increase as they feel necessary to get you (your contractions) going stronger and closer together...

3. If any of this starts to stress out the baby, they will give you oxygen.... and lighten up on the pitocin... or stop it completely.

4. Once you get to a certain dialation (this depends totally on the hospital and your doc, usually around 3-5cm, they may offer an epi)

5. Somewhere between 2-6cm they may artificially break your water - with an amniohook, which looks like a crochet hook. It doesn't hurt, but the sudden warm and soaked feeling is pretty uncomfortable for most women. Then they'll probly give you a new bed...  

6. The baby comes out.

Again, this is just from watching it hundreds of times on TV....  


Good luck and easy labor dust!!!

Thanks Ladies!! i don't know how I could have ever survived this pregnancy without youBG ladies to ease my mind