Induced Labor

I was admitted in the hospital at about 10 AM. A staff escorted my husband and I to the maternity ward, pushing the elevator button and entering the code that opens the door to the maternity ward then endorsing us to the nurses there. Once I was already lying in bed, they draw 2 vials of maternal blood while asking another nurse was asking me questions for the forms. One vial of blood was for the cord blood registry that we enrolled in, the other I was told was for medication like pain killers if I requested them .

They gave me cervidil, which I later found out is a prostaglandin releasing medication, to help ripen my cervix. It stayed inside me for 12 hours. Using a fetal stethoscope or ultrasound stethoscope called a Doppler which they attached on the part of my belly where my baby's heartbeat can best be heard nurses check me every now and then, counting the heartbeats and notes the response of the baby's heart rate during and just after contraction. Each nurse recorded the heart rate and contraction information on my labor chart. In the afternoon I was given 2 hours without the constant fetal and heart monitor. I was encouraged to walk in hall way to help with my labor, so my husband hold or mor correctly push the metal stand where my the IV drip hang. I was given a liquid food when I return to the Labor/Delivery Room.

My contractions increased during the night but I swear the pelvic exams were more uncomfortably painful than the contractions. The contractions felt just like a metal band is squezzing your lower abdomen as well as pressure on your anal area.