The phrase
"cervical check" refers to a medical test or examination done by a healthcare professional to check the health of the cervix. The cervix is a part of a woman's reproductive system located at the lower end of the uterus. A
cervical check typically involves the use of a special tool or a gentle touch to assess the cervix for any abnormalities or signs of disease, such as cervical cancer. It is an important preventive measure that can help detect potential health issues early on and ensure appropriate treatment if needed.
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Women may also have to tolerate
many cervical checks throughout labor so medical staff can view their progress.
In hospital births
where cervical checks are the norm, a woman is usually only able to labor naturally for 24 hrs after her waters break.
While it seems weird that someone would want to
decline cervical checks and continuous fetal monitoring, there are reasons.
In the case of a home birth, most mothers do not submit to
cervical checks since they provide little useful information and are poor predictors of labor progression.
At the birthing center they don't
do cervical checks unless you specifically ask for them, because the way they see it — it doesn't really matter how far dilated you are — you'll have a baby at some point regardless.
I mean you know from a monitoring stand point, you know frequency
of cervical checks, I mean how much different is it to you know give birth to twins as oppose to a singleton?
Why do these types absolutely flip out at a
routine cervical check, but let themselves be photographed naked while laboring and don't mind five people touching them while they are having a contraction?
The midwives don't do things
like cervical checks before the woman is in labor, they don't do NSTs and things like weighing in and UAs are done by the women.
A woman can speak up in advance and let medical staff know that she is not comfortable with
many cervical checks and find out their policy in a low - risk delivery situation.
The influence of interventions such as epidurals, frequency
of cervical checks, episiotomies, vaginal preparation with betadine, enemas, and other procedures used during labor and delivery also have not been extensively examined.
I had a feeling I was much more progressed than she thought and asked her to do
a cervical check.
Around 3:30 am,
a cervical check showed us at 5 cm, which meant only 1/2 a cm in about 10 hours of labor.
After Jordan and I both took significant naps, we had
another cervical check.
The problem with all of those alternative methods is that they are better than flipping a coin or rolling dice — but not as good as
a cervical check.
«Women want to be able to move around untethered to machines, they want to stay home as long as possible before heading to the hospital, they don't want to be disturbed or excessively monitored, or have too many
cervical checks (if at all), and they want to have immediate and uninterrupted skin - to - skin contact with their newborn and wait until the cord stops pulsating to clamp and cut the cord,» said Shea.
Often, the obstetrician is the one to inform the pregnant woman that it has passed during
a cervical check for dilation.
For this specific pregnancy, I did reach a point where
a cervical check became necessary.
Cervical checks and continuous fetal monitoring are both things that are usually routinely done at hospitals unless you specifically ask otherwise.
I asked for
a cervical check and I was 4 centimeters dilated and 80 % effaced and baby was at minus 2 station.
When we got to the hospital they took me up to triage to do
a cervical check and put me on the contraction monitor.