Cervidil®/Propess®: Benefits

Delivering babies is interesting from a pharmaceutical basis. 

Care has to be taken in reducing the risk of side effects for both the mother and her baby. Most births will happen quite naturally, and without much (or even any) help.  This is not always the case. 

In about 20% of times a woman will need some help because the process is not occurring as fast as it should or the cervix is not opening up and letting the baby pass. In just over half of these women, the answer is to give a prostaglandin drug, like that found in the Cervidil®/Propess® vaginal insert, to ripen the cervix and move the process along.