Yay for our hospital Tegan LOL
As the other girls have said, alot of Dr's will interfere due to the risk of infection - at my hospital (and Tegan's) we wait for at least 48hrs UNLESS the woman is GBS +ve and then we would hope to start induction ASAP. We don't start women on oral antibiotics unless they are pre-term. For all term women whp are GBS -ve we ask them to come in for regular CTG's, measure temps every 4 - 6 hours, watch out for colour or odour change in the liquor, observe for any cold and flu sympotms and take note of babe's activity and of course if any concerns, please come back to delivery suite. LOL I'm very good at my ruptured membranes spiel!