Cervidil

I went in for my induction zero dilated or effaced. I was started on cervidil and it honestly did nothing! So almost “wasted” the first 10 hours of induction. Then they did the pill (misoprostol), and that dilated me to 1 cm, enough to insert the foley bulb balloon. The foley bulb balloon was so intense and fast acting! (Very painful though). It got me to 4 cm so fast, and then fell out along with my water breaking. (The contractions were so strong that as soon as it fell out, I got an epidural). Then they started low pitocin and I got to 9-10 cm fairly quick. It was a long process! But to answer your question, the cervidil didn’t work on me. It was not painful (it was slightly pinchy/ uncomfortable getting it inserted). But that’s it

I had this with my first induction. It’s not painful. It’s a cervix ripening agent it won’t make you contract, that’s pitocin. At the time L&D was short staffed so the staggered all the births as best as they could. I had cervidil through the night and then they started my pitocin around 10 pm. I was fully dialated by 1am and failed to progress due to my son being much bigger than we thought so he was stuck for about 2 hours before I opted for a c section. Once they wheeled me into the OR he was here 30 minutes later. He was born at 3:11am and whew was the recovery from that c section rough. I’m a scheduled c section this time around due to complications and preeclampsia.