Oh for crying out loud. Really?

Why do they expect women to start contractions RIGHT when the water breaks? Honestly……..

My contractions didn’t start until an hour and a half after my water broke.
Besides, Speed things up? Do you have somewhere to be or something? If so, just leave and let a nurse with patience do your job.

I can kind of see the nurse’s point: the nurse is on an arbitrary clock. They want that baby out within 24 hours or they’ll section the mom. So the nurse sees her options as either give the mom pitocin now and possibly avoid a surgical delivery or else have the mom hang around with no contractions and then have a section in 24 hours.

*I* would suggest the mom go home, walk around, do safe things to get labor started on her own. But I am not an L&D nurse and I am not working under the orders of several doctors who are terrified of being sued. I don’t think the problem here is the nurse as much as the clock.

a few hours after my water broke my bf talked me into calling the hospital to let them know i would be coming in yet.they said come when contractions are getting uncomfortable. well they didnt lol so i didnt go. my doc called in the morning and wanted me to come in and get checked out. even after that i used the breast pump and walking to try and get more contractions. they werent even going to start any pit until 18 hours after my water broke. and i did end up needing it but only got it started at the 24 hour mark. they were too busy lol. sad thing is once your water breaks they want that baby out in 24 hours no matter what it seems. but 2 hours after is ridiculous!

Well they didn’t start my pitocin until 11 hours after my water broke. Guess what – I only got to 7 cm by the time my time was up. Bring on the pitocin!
I should have gone to bed and worrid about the hospital the next morning and lied about when my water broke.

Of course I disagree with it, but it’s pretty much SOP in most hospitals. It’s about as shocking as a comment like “Well, you’ve been in labor for 24 hours, we need to talk about having a C/S.”

If they could learn to stop “checking” the mom every five minutes that whole 24-hour time limit wouldn’t be necessary. Then mom could still go home until she’s in active labor (like she can’t just go home anyway. What are they going to do, handcuff her to the bed– I know they try their hardest to sometimes).

Did my sister submit this? Because that’s exactly what happened to her. Her water broke, she called, they told her to come in, confirmed her water had broken, admitted her, and immediately started pitocin because she wasn’t contracting. Narrowly escaped a c-section but didn’t escape a 3rd-degree tear, but is seriously considering getting her tubes tied because she’s so traumatized by the whole experience.

And then you get me, who didn’t have a single contraction until 28 1/2 hours after my water broke, with baby making his appearance an hour after that.

Um… No thanks!

I had something similar except I didn’t even get told what medicine it was, and I was told as it was being injected into the iv bag

Why do they have to muck about with labor? Is it so hard to NOT do anything. Maybe monitor mom and see what happens. Or heaven forbid, ask what she wants to do!!!!

Or you could just refrain from doing Vaginal exams until labor starts. Then no clock need start at all.

My last baby was born 40 hours after my water broke. I was only in labor for four hours. My only vaginal exam was about 20 minutes before she was born.

my water was broken for 2 days before my contractions started.

My water was broken for 90 hours with ds2 before contractions & about 13 hours with ds3. I never did get contractions with ds1 despite the “speedy” pitocin. I wound up with a cesarean at hour 23. I stayed home with the younger 2.

My contractions started around noon when I was still at work! LOL yes I worked the day I went to the hospital Then after I got home from work, I refused to leave the toilet bc was only thing that helped. 2 hours after I’d been home my water gushed out. Then 3 hours later, the contractions started! And they came HARD. Thank God no pitocin here.

When my sister had her daughter, they tried to induce her and give her an epidural so many times! It took 2 hours for them to actually admit her because they didn’t believe her water broke. It was all so stupid, they ended up telling her to leave only to chase us out the door and tell us to come back because it was really her waters. no duh.
The minute she was admitted and nurse walked in and said “I’m going to get your pitocin and epidural started!” When my sister said no, she looked completely stunned and walked out. About 6 hours later they checked her and the exact words of the nurse were “You’re doing great! I’m going to go set up the pitocin!” Umm, if she’s doing so well why do you need to induce her? My sister decline and she also looked stunned and went to call her OB.

I got lucky I was in Australia instead of the U.S. I was in the hospital on IV antibiotics after my water broke early (at 35 weeks 5 days). If labor didn’t start within a week my doctor planned to induce.

Luckily I went into labor after 6 and a half days. Did end up needing augmentation (they used Syntocin – I think it’s the same as Pitocin).

I’m so glad that we were able to wait until labor happened and not have a c-section after 24 hours…

One of the reasons I was glad to have chosen homebirth (again). My last labour water broke first, as it always does with me, and contrax didn’t start til 16 hours later. Baby was born in an hour from then though.

Put on a Depend, go home, sleep, and I’ll keep my fingers out of you vag. It’s really not that difficult.

This was mine. I can’t pink link from my phone but this was just part of my experience. The unnecessary pitocin triggered unbearably painful contractions that wore me out within an hour. Being 19 I didn’t know any better and listened to friends and hospital staff instead of my own intuition and actually doing research, which I could kick myself for. Anyway, the contractions were too close together causing DS to go in to distress and he wound up with his cord wrapped twice around his neck. I was completely content after my water broke and in no pain until this awful “medicine” was given to me. I guess I wasn’t in enough pain for them. The nurse also sucked at my IV and it hurt like hell putting it in and my hand was bruised for 2 weeks. I don’t easily bruise and my veins are very easy to find. It was awful! Home birth next time 100%!!

I have a very similar one also, water broke 2 weeks early no contractions. I live like an hour and a half from the hospital so when it broke we waited maybe an hour and left, it was also middle of the night. I got to wait until my OB came in in the morning before she really pushed the Pit, I had a few minor contractions with out but it wasnt enough for them. after Pit I made it another 7 hours before any meds, got some stadol which was my big mistake, it made me sleep through the down time and woke up in pain(like a charlie horse, your body is confused) by the time I could chill and work through a contraction it was over, after about two hours of that I opted for an epidural. at hour 12 of pit, 20 of ruptured membranes, babys heart rate was going crazy, I was only at 6cm and they had to do a Csec. My OB was very sweet, and I knew I couldnt put it off since I was no where near progressed enough. if I had labored at home a while I think I would have made it at least with no Csec.
Sorry to the OP, Drs can be so pushy and you really dont know what to do or what you can refuse.