Sweep at 38/39 weeks (Also in Due in November)
Hi. I am booked in to have a sweep at 38+6 and wondered if anyone had any success stories or advice to help make it successful? This is my second baby so hoping that might make a difference but don't know if that's just wishful thinking! Thanks ladies.
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Sorry I don't have any advice to help you, but thought you would like o know it can be successful.
Jo xx
I was already about 1cm dilated, my waters were 'bulging' and the midwife could touch my babys head (and told me they had lots of hair!)
I had some twinges for the rest of the day (had it done in the morning), then they fizzled out. For the next coupe of days I had twinges on and off if I kept mobile (walking round the village and going on my gym ball).
I ended up being induced at 41+5 (in the evening) and it only took one pessary and was pretty instant acting, so the midwife said the sweep must have done something, just unfortunately not got me all the way into labour. I had my son the following afternoon.
Hope it all goes well for you, and please don't worry about the sweep, what you think it'll be like is more than likely to be worse than it actually is.
Best of luck!