Cervix self check

corinerene · August 2015

I'm sorry but who TF is checking their own cervix? I was looking up info on dilation, and instructions on how to check dilation myself popped up! Who is doing this? Lol! No judgements here I'm just shocked that you can check yourself and that someone might actually do it!!! Have you guys done this?

archetypeblonde · August 2015

I was wondering this too! I'd love to be able to know any time because I have had so many ptl and prodromal labor scares, but my own vagina is like a cave of well kept secrets. I wouldn't know my cervix if it bit my finger. And do you wear gloves???

candicejeff2013 · August 2015

I can't even reach that area let alone check my cervix.

jlsweets · August 2015

Ha yeahhhh no thank you. I don't even want to see down there right now X_X

jesigirli · August 2015

Well this post could have gone a lot of different ways. Cervix self checks = nope!

toccoaparker · August 2015

No way, I would be worried about infection/bacteria..I'll leave it to the doctors when necessary.

breezymeema7 · August 2015

I read the title and was ready for something else. No, I have zero desire to check my own cervix.

AshleyM0125 · August 2015

candicejeff2013 said:
I can't even reach that area let alone check my cervix.

^this.

J&D2007 · August 2015

Hell, no. I don't have any interest in self checking anything.

emmacake08 · August 2015

Only ever did that for fertility purposes and never loved getting all up in there. Between chances of infection, all the discharge, and my T. rex arms... No thanks

kelseyrayay · August 2015

I was seriously about to judge you..but then I read the post.

corinerene · August 2015

Lol does my title post not make sense? I wasn't sure how to word it!

kelseyrayay · August 2015

corinerene said:
Lol does my title post not make sense? I wasn't sure how to word it!

I thought you were going to ask how to check it yourself. But I'd leave it. I bet you will get someone who has tried before. It will make for a good read.

mrsyoshida · August 2015

I did it when ttc but now that I'm pregnant I don't want to risk introducing bacteria.

Miz_Liz · August 2015

1 Finger = 1 cm....I like to wear my fancy gloves when I check....

Kwest1007 · August 2015

My husband asked a while ago, can't u just look down there n see if ur dilating yet? Lol

PuppyKitten · August 2015

I know what my cervix felt like before my first because I had an IUD and was supposed to check it every month to make sure it was still in place. After my son was born I stayed the hell out of there because I was freaked out by the idea of it being different. Right now I'm 38+4 and can barely wipe after I pee, much less touch my cervix.

On another note I was doing a Google search and was horrified when it auto completed to "how to break your own water"

SashaDenn25 · August 2015

Whos arms are this long?!?!

bpwife&mama · August 2015

I can't even wipe after I pee let alone check for dialation.

ChanelLovesB · August 2015

After my last Appointment DH offered to check my cervix as many times as I wanted. Damn perv!

melody27 · August 2015

bpwife&mama said:

I can't even wipe after I pee let alone check for dialation.

So glad I'm not the only one with this problem.

corinerene · August 2015

You all are funny! It said you are to sit on the toilet and do it for those wondering how you would reach it! Yea but bacteria and infection is reason enough for me NOT to do it myself, especially being GBS +

jesselayne8 · August 2015

PuppyKitten said:
I know what my cervix felt like before my first because I had an IUD and was supposed to check it every month to make sure it was still in place. After my son was born I stayed the hell out of there because I was freaked out by the idea of it being different. Right now I'm 38+4 and can barely wipe after I pee, much less touch my cervix.

On another note I was doing a Google search and was horrified when it auto completed to "how to break your own water"

Curiosity got the best of me so I googled how to break your own water. Thankfully it didn't involve sharp objects. It was just a bunch of the old wives tales about jump starting labor such as spicy foods, pineapple, sex and nipple stimulation.

907_baby · August 2015

I needed this laugh, thank you all!

)
And now, I need to pee!

astreetx3 · August 2015

bpwife&mama said:
I can't even wipe after I pee let alone check for dialation.

Oh, the accuracy.

gulimz · August 2015

Yeah. No. No self checking if anything for me.

kat+1 · August 2015

I do it squatting in the shower, my midwife said it was fine to do with clean hands. (You have sex and dont get an infection so why would it be more of a risk my midwife said when I asked.). I dont stick my finger in my cervix I just feel the outside I am about a 2 right now at 37+1 weeks. STM.

I can also feel behind my cervix baby's girls head it's really neat.

KristinaD217 · August 2015

^That freaks me out.......but whatever floats your boat.

sushilove15 · August 2015

kat+1 said:
I do it squatting in the shower, my midwife said it was fine to do with clean hands. (You have sex and dont get an infection so why would it be more of a risk my midwife said when I asked.). I dont stick my finger in my cervix I just feel the outside I am about a 2 right now at 37+1 weeks. STM.

I can also feel behind my cervix baby's girls head it's really neat.

@-)

psherman42wwsa · August 2015

I tried to check my cervix because I read online that it is safter and can be less painful , I thought I did it right and I thought it was dilated to at least a 3, I was so excited. Then went to the midwife the next day and she checked and said nothing was going on down there. Oh and I defintely did it wrong, who knows what the heck I thought I was measuring. That sure was disappointing! That was my first and last attempt. Seems impossible to check yourself due to the angle your hand needs to be at and being a FTM I had no idea what the heck I was doing. My coworkers think I am crazy and enjoyed hearing my story. Now every time I go to the bathroom they ask if I checked myself... lol

Bickey11 · August 2015

i'm fine with my doc checking me, hell i can even avoid that. I don't care where i am just as long as he doesn't stay in there forever

corinerene · August 2015

Kat+1 if I squatted in the shower (or anywhere) I would not be getting up! Lol

neludelu · August 2015

corinerene said:
Kat+1 if I squatted in the shower (or anywhere) I would not be getting up! Lol

This^^

CrystalRaquel2010 · August 2015

I was dilated to a one at 36 weeks. My doctor told me I could check myself if I was curious about how much I was dilating. She said to just do it slowly and clean under my nails and a few more details before I attempted. She made it seem like not a big deal, so I did. I was curious after learning I could check myself.

lilana1011 · August 2015

It's no big deal prior to water breaking. It's a rather large deal to have cervix checks after your water breaks because the risk of infection is much larger. Had I known this with my first I wouldn't have let the nurses check me at all when I was admitted or after getting to my room.

deviduke412 · August 2015

kat+1 said:
I do it squatting in the shower, my midwife said it was fine to do with clean hands. (You have sex and dont get an infection so why would it be more of a risk my midwife said when I asked.). I dont stick my finger in my cervix I just feel the outside I am about a 2 right now at 37+1 weeks. STM.

I can also feel behind my cervix baby's girls head it's really neat.

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