Rupturing your membranes also puts you on a clock, has a greater chance
of cord prolapse meaning emergency, increases your risk
of infection and takes away your
baby's buffer to the strong contractions caused by Pitocin, your epidural can slow labor, making you unable to move and / or push effectively, doesn't allow for proper fetal descent, you will most likely have a catheter placed to your bladder, increasing risk
of bladder infections, and if all else fails, at 5PM, you will have a C / S at 5PM before your
baby gets too tired or
sick to continue laboring (because the doctor is tired
of waiting).