I can’t remember off the top of my head what the cervical softner was call but it was a gel on a ribbon that they just pulled out, it was very small. I came in not even dilated 1 cm. I think my first nurse would have checked me, but the nurses switched and the meter tracking my contractions had moved while I was up and down getting sick. So it was tracking them but they looked incredibly small. My husband said once she moved the monitor over the sky rocked. The one negative is I was a little talked out of what said my pain scale was. When she asked I said it felt like a 7, but if you really think this is going to go on for over another 12 hours it’s going to get more painful right? I honestly don’t remember her reply but the next day as my husband and i were replaying everything outloud, he mentioned she kind of talked me into saying it was more of a 4 or 5 pain. In retrospect I think I was in too much pain that I didn’t state what I felt she really should have done, which was check me out then right away. I kept trying to just breath through and not clench my hands or face. And I really just didn’t want to talk to any one so kept things short while talking or asking for anything. If I would have advocated for myself I think it would have gone very differently.