So last night my mid wife had my husband and I go to labor and delivery for non invasive stress test on baby. I'm a first time mom and he'd gone from having a crazy moment like practicing karate once a day with other moment throughout the day to very in comparison weak small movements the last day or two. They monitor me and he was doing fine but think he wasn't moving because I was having contractions. So they had me change positions and drink more water. My nurse after a few hours wanted to see if I was dilated and feel my cervix. There was zero warning that it could be painful. It's was so painful that I cried and when the nurse left I cried more to my husband. Now I'm terrified for labor because Im terrifiedofhavingmy cervixchecked. The nurse was nice and felt really bad that it was so painful for me, but a warning would have been nice. They ended up ordering a vaginal ultrasound to measure my cervix and it was fine. I was just really taken off guard because I've never had an issue like that during a pap or anything. Part of me feels like I'm just a giant wimp, but maybe it's because I was completely unprepared for that level of pain? Is that normal now I'm afraid I have pelvic floor issues or something, but was too upset to ask last night because I was trying not to cry and make the nurse feel bad.
Re: Checking for dilation of cervix painful!?
I typically agree w/ @meggyme, but not with declining cervical checks.
I went in for an appt. On a Friday. Dilated at 4. Sunday I was having contractions through the day. Next morning. They were running 4 min apart for 1 min each. It lasted an hour and called my office.
They told me to go in. I did. Theykept track of the contraction and saw I was in active labor. They wanted a cervical check - still a 4. 7 hours later,still a 4. I went for an epidural as I couldn't take it any more. After the epidural from 4 - 10 in almost 90 min. My body was not relaxing between contractions. So baby wasn't moving.
So just a reason why I feel they are important, so they can track how labor progresses.