Yeah hard call. I haven't done a cervical exam during labour myself. I know my cervix well from TTC. You would need to get comfortable Nd feel around. It is going to either be completely closed and feel like a soft little mouth if it is ripe and a nose if it isn't. I heard ripening described as being like feeling your lips as not ripe cervix as like feeling your nose. If you cant feel either of those things then u may not be able to reach your cervix or it may be thinning and dilating and I have no hints on what that feels like sorry.