Does rupturing membranes and sweeping mean the same thing?

No not the same.

They aren't the same!! Rupturing membranes is when they break your bag of waters. This increases risk of infection by a lot and makes contractions much more painful. Sweeping the membranes is a doctor putting their finger inside your uterus and pulling on your cervix to try to start labor. It is painful and has a low success rate for actually starting labor. 😕

I think rupturing the membranes is breaking the waters....and a sweep is when the midwife inserts fingers and sweeps the bag of waters arround the cervix to possibly kick start labour.I got a sweep but it didn't do anything. Took x3 lots of pessarys to induce my labour.