Drip didn't work, even after breaking waters

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Just curious how many people have experienced this. According to a quick Google search, it only happens in 1% of inductions.
I had my waters broken and was put on the drip, but absolutely nothing happened for 8 hours. No pain, no dilation.
Complete contrast to my first baby, where the drip fully dilated me within 2 hours with the most indescribable pain.

It was a little while ago now, but I've just been thinking about it and how odd it was in comparison to my first induction, and found out how how rare it is for this to happen.

My waters broke sporadically and I was put on the drip due to being Group B Strep positive. As baby needed to be out within 24hours to avoid infection. 12+ hours later I hadn’t progressed past 4cm. Had an emergency c-section in the end.

Did you have any contractions/pain with it? The midwifes were all so baffled and made comments throughout. It was so odd. @pinkcow123

I should have said in my OP, I also had an emcs.

The midwife said to me something along the lines of ‘either your pain threshold is really high or you aren’t progressing’
I was contracting on the monitor though, I think.

@pinkcow123yes I was also contracting on the monitor, but felt no pain. At one point they said to me that they thought baby would be out very soon based on the activity on the monitor, I couldn't believe my luck 😆 I thought I was having the easiest birth ever 😂 until they checked me and realised I wasn't dilating.

They said to me that they didn’t think baby’s head was straight, so when I was contracting their head wasn’t pushing on my cervix to open it, which is why I wasn’t dilating

I had my waters broke in Feb (third baby) and they checked me within 4 hours and I was 10cm. I had an epidural though.