Sometimes, your doctor or midwife can tell
by vaginal examination later in pregnancy if your baby is breech or not.
Doulas do not perform clinical or medical tasks such as taking blood pressure or temperature, monitoring fetal heart rate,
doing vaginal examinations or providing postpartum clinical care.
Although I had a normal pregnancy, an extremely medicalized antenatal system meant I had lots of scans and
a vaginal examination at every check - up.
Once the first baby is born, your midwife or doctor can check the position of the second baby by feeling your tummy and doing
a vaginal examination.
By the 80s health professionals were beginning to recognise the value of dads being present at the birth, although they would still be asked to leave if any medical procedure was carried out — even minor ones like injections or
vaginal examinations.»