Midwives and my birth/story

Elfanie wrote:

administering pitocin a couple hours after water breaks spontaniously

If the midwife HADN'T have given you Pitocin, and if you'd ended up
with an infection from having your membranes ruptured for longer, then
the midwife could have been brought up on charges of malpractice for
not doing the "standard of practice", which is to administer Pitocin.

Is it really 'standard of practice' to administer pitocin so soon after a
person's water breaks? I thought they waited a number of hours for labor to
start on its own before taking that step?

I'm just curious since pitocin was never mentioned to me when my water
broke. It was quite awhile before contractions began, a few hours longer
before they got serious and regular. Baby was born 23 hours after my water
broke. I was under OB care but dealt with the hospital and nurses until
things were fairly far along (perhaps about 6cm/14 hours after my water
broke - as a guesstimate). Then the doctor started popping in and out, but
not much. He was a stand in for my regular OB. He was actually a fertility
specialist and was not usually at births. I'm just curious to know if he
followed protocol or not.

My regular OB was at #2 and she was in and out a lot more from the get go, I
was induced with that one though.
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Nikki
Mama to Hunter (5) and Luke (3)