https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:06:11 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-479576 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:03:35 +0000 Weagle 479576@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My one and only cervical check at 38 weeks was like that. I'll never get one again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-479573 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:02:21 +0000 BlueWolverine 479573@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, I'm kind of hoping she was just a little rough and didn't strip without telling/asking me. Not OK with that, even though I probably would have told her to go ahead. I still want the choice. I did tell her that I felt large and in charge and ready to have this baby.. I'll ask my doc about it when I go next week (if I haven't had the baby yet....). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-479556 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:56:35 +0000 skibobrown 479556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had the opposite happen. I saw a different doc for my 1st cervical check and it was no big deal. Then I saw my doctor for the next one, and yowee!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-479537 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:51:47 +0000 Arden 479537@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@prettylizy: Yeah, that bothers me too. No doctor should be sticking their hand inside you without asking permission first, much less performing an intervention without your consent!</p> <p>I've indicated on my birth plan that barring complications, I won't be consenting to cervical checks at all during my pregnancy or labor. My care providers are tentatively agreeable to this decision. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-479520 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:47:25 +0000 prettylizy 479520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't believe so many of you have experiences with doctor stripping your membranes without asking permission first. That seems like a pretty big deal to me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-479511 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:44:56 +0000 BlueWolverine 479511@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, now I'm seeing brownish discharge and just read a description of what stripping my membranes actually is. Seems like that could have been it. However, I do wish she would have told me that what what she was doing (if, in fact, that's what she did). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-478726 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:24:41 +0000 ladyfingers 478726@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Eek! I had my GBS swab and my first cervical check (unannounced, that was a wake-me-up!) yesterday and yeah, I was like... I need to man up in the next 4 weeks! If *this* makes me want to curl up in a ball, what will L&amp;D be like!? He was mercifully quick, however. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-478693 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:09:56 +0000 Bao 478693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BlueWolverine: This happened to me! My regular Dr. was always so gentle and I could barely feel it. I saw a Nurse Practitioner at my 39 week appt and it hurt like a mother. I had lots of bleeding afterwards so I called and then found out she in fact stripped my membranes! Maybe the same thing happened with you? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-478686 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:07:35 +0000 Alivoo01 478686@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh, ouch!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-478625 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:45:28 +0000 StbHisMrs 478625@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BlueWolverine: I had a similar thing happen to me when I was about 38 or 39 weeks, my regular gentle Dr. was on vacation so I saw one of his partners. Everything was great until she did the internal and OMG it didn't feel all that great, then she said well I may have just accidentally stripped your membranes! Maybe this Dr was helping you out ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-478477 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:53:39 +0000 tororojo 478477@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yikes! Sorry to hear that. One of my favorite things about my doc is that HIS hands are tiny...like smaller than mine. ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-478468 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:52:15 +0000 rachiecakes 478468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did the same thing! I thought, how on earth am I going to be able to give birth?<br /> Good news? Once the baby drops and you start to dilate it no longer feels like their whole arm is up in there, it actually doesn't hurt at all at that point. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-478467 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:52:03 +0000 autumnlove 478467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh! I hate cervical checks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-478466 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:51:56 +0000 T.H.O.U. 478466@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yikes! Do you think she was trying to help you along? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-478464 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:50:37 +0000 shopaholic 478464@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yikes! good luck and hope baby comes soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/39-week-appt-was-not-pleasant#post-478461 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:49:23 +0000 BlueWolverine 478461@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had my 39 week appointment today and I had to see another doc in the practice because mine is on vacation. She was really nice and gave me the typical suggestions to try to get labor going (walking, sex, etc.). However, when she examined my cervix I almost jumped off the table. My doc is quick and easy and it felt like this one was busy looking for a magic ring or something. Holy cow.</p> <p>Happy my doc will be back next week :-) </p>