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How do you feel about having a membrane stripping/sweep to induce labor?

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Not really in favor. It doesn’t always work and then you’ve potentially introduced bacteria and upped your infection risk for no reason. My midwife and I have talked it over, and if I’m getting dangerously close to risking out of my birth center birth, it might be worth a shot, but other than that, we’re not going to go in that direction 🤷🏼‍♀️

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I will never get one again - it was horrible and didn't work anyway.

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Yes! With my 2nd at 38 weeks I was 2cm 50% and got a sweep at about 4pm. By 4am I was in active labor. I started getting contractions about 11pm that night, so 7 hours later. My OB says it works best on subsequent pregnancies

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I will do it again, I had it done at my last appointment with my daughter 2 days before my due date/scheduled induction. I went into labor that night! It was uncomfortable but not painful!

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Wasn’t asked first time around, ended up with an induction at 40w +3d. 10/10 would recommend, so probably not going to agree to a sweep for #2

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Had one with my second and went into labor four days later.  It was really painful though.

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It was painful and didn’t work for my first- I wouldn’t do it again

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I had it done twice with my first pregnancy. Neither time worked and I really had no idea at the time what the point of it was. My dr just said "ok I'm going to check your cervix. Oh! You're dilated to a 3! I'm going to strip your membranes!" Neither time worked to.send me into labor so I'm planning on denying it this time around.

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I had one with my first and it didn't work. It really didn't hurt either, just uncomfortable.

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I will if I’m not progressing on my own. I’m trying for a vbac and I can’t go that far over or have to have a C section again.

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