Anyone had ARM only as an induction?

[Lexyness]

I am booked for induction, artificial rupture of membranes only (assuming I meet the right conditions)

Has anyone had this type of induction without the pessary or drip?

Consultant seems confident that this will work and I won’t need anything else, so I have my fingers crossed as dc1&2 labours started naturally with waters breaking before contractions and then labour was pretty quick! Had ARM with dc3 but I was already in labour at that point, can’t honestly remember what happened but think he came straight after that too lol.

Just interested to hear people’s stories!

I was told you have to have the cervix open at least 2cm before they can break the waters, so a pessary of some sort was essential?

I had the one that ties around it, supposed to be left for 12 hours - mine fell out and as they went to re insert it, they realised I was 3cm dilated so was booked in to delivery suite. Cue a panicky call to OH who was at home at this point! He made it in time lol

Thursday 2pm - pessary
Friday 6am - pessary fell out
9.50am waters broke (ARM)
12.51pm baby arrived
8.30pm on way home

Good luck!! I loved being induced and the control it gave me over when it was happening, I was in the right place from the very beginning and being monitored. I liked that control.

24 hours ** not 12. My mistake

I had this with dc1. Had a couple sweeps beforehand with Bishop score of 8 and about 2cm dilated so skipped pessary stage. Downside was I had to hang around on antenatal ward for 2 days waiting for a space, whereas pessary may have speeded that up.

Standard is to give you 2hrs to wait for contractions. But you can ask for 4, and I ended up with 6 as they were so busy by which point I was contracting. Baby born 7hrs later. As yours is dc3 it should all be much faster for you! Good luck!

Thanks for the replies! @sirmione16 here’s to hoping I’m dilated at least 2cm in 2weeks time then lol! They don’t have any plans on using the pessary and I would rather they didn’t either! Seemed to indicate that I could be home by the same evening if myself and baby are ok!
@Youhavewonaprize I am going to ask my mw for a sweep on my appointment a few days before so hopefully that should kick things off with any luck! And my hospital don’t usually do inductions on weekends from what I’m told BUT agreed as it was my consultant asking and her working weekend lol, so fingers crossed I won’t have to wait for a space as she might not be working by then lol! Plus with dc2&3 I think after waters going, contractions were pretty much instant hopefully I won’t need to wait even 2hours if this one follows suit! (Now have visions of a much more prolonged drawn out labour 🙈)
Have decided to do lots of walking to and from town before then - it’s a VERY steep hill which I live at the top of so as much as it’s a struggle it might help move things along Cos I only have to walk a few paces and I get the fanny daggers lol x

Hello @Lexyness I briefly mentioned mine on the other thread but here is more detail.

DC3- induced by ARM at 42wks Bishops score was good and cervix open. Apparently I was having contractions too but couldn't feel them.

A lot of waiting around for space on delivery ward but my waters were broken around 2pm. Sat for a while, then was told to go for a walk. As soon as I started walking my contractions kicked off, and I had her 2hrs later.

Mine went like this;

Friday 9am - sweep
Friday - 11am - pessary
Friday - 4pm - pessary
Saturday - 5am - ARM
Saturday - 12pm - put on the drip
Saturday - 4.30pm - baby born by ventouse!

Meant to add - they only went to ARM as the pessaries didn't work. As far as I knew at the time, the usual course of action was to use the pessary first.

Induced with Foley balloon catheter for my third. Was meant to be in for 10 hours but after 30 mins it fell out and labour was underway. Was followed by ARM, and baby born couple of hours later. All went smoothly and avoided any other induction. Good luck!

I had this, I went in and was already nearly 3cm dilated and they broke my water.

However was still a very long process and a long 18 hour labour even with them breaking my water. Xx