Cervidil

[Anonymous]

I'm being induced for medical reasons and was wondering exactly what happens once they put in the Cervidil at night. Can I still eat? Go to the bathroom? Walk around?

TIA!

[dgahagan]

You can't get up for an hour. I don't know about the eating-if it's after 10pm the night before you're induced, I wouldn't think so. I don't know what would happen next-I had to have a c-section.

[Anonymous]

Once I got to the hosptial for my induction, they don't let you eat or drink. Very unnatural I thought. If they have you on an IV for the GBS meds as I was, you probably are stuck in bed the whole time.

[Anonymous]

I was able to eat from two hours after they administered the Cervidil until midnight. I was on an IV but could get up and go to the bathroom if I unhooked my heplock and monitors.

(This was at Holy Cross two weeks ago, btw)

[Anonymous]

Once the Cervidil was in, I had to stay lying down for two hours, after which I could get up and use the bathroom if I needed to, but was still encouraged to lay in bed most of the time to let it work. I was able to eat until midnight, after which I was given juice, water, and ice chips whenever I requested it. My doc prescribed a mild sleeping pill, which I took around midnight or so, to help me sleep and stay in bed--I honestly didn't get much sleep that night, but I also had no particular desire to get up out of bed and wander around because I was seven hundred years pregnant and hooked up to an IV, had the baby monitor around my belly, a blood pressure cuff on, etc. It just wasn't particularly convenient, in any respect, to be up and out of bed. Once the Cervidil came out the next morning, I was able to get up, get unhooked from everything, and take a shower and get cleaned up a little bit before they started the Pitocin.