Thankfully, that is the only time I have been told that is the policy. 1:2 is our usual max ratio, either 2 cervical ripening patients, or a Mother/Baby couplet and 1 cervical ripening patient (we are...
HOWEVER the MD has to have examined the patient within 24 hours of start of induction. So they see the MD in the office that day (Or on a sunday, the MD on call checks them) so there is an exam by the...
We do them, and we only do 1 cervidil. If that doesn't work, they try cytotec or the occasional foley balloon. Even when I traveled to places where they did serial inductions with more than one...
Our policy for any cervical ripening is way crazy, and we all agree that if handed that assignment (has never happened, but the policy says it could) we will refuse, for the safety of the patients....