Lots of Vaginal Exams During Birth?

Have any of you had what seemed to be a lot of vaginal exams during birth? Ive often thought of rping something like this! http://birth11.tripod.com/4/4.html what do you guys and gals think?

Ive had it wih one of my children.

The gyn checked me at least 10 times because i felt the urge to push over and over again.

There was a midwife student in the room as well.

She was about 19 or 20 years old and she was soo kind that i felt sorry to refuse her.

So she checked me every time after the gyn.

In totall it was over 20 times.

The worsed part was after birth when they checked me for rupture.

The gyn opened my labia very wide and told the student: " look she has a little cut under her clitoris, can you see that."

" And a small scratch over here but we dont need to stich her"

Oh yes very interesting she said.

I knew i just gave birth in front of them but the moment my son was born i wanted my decency back!

Dr thunderstick I enjoyed that story!

Would you like to talk about that experience more id love to hear about it!

Sure, i give birth to 4 children in total plus a cs.

So i have a lot of experience 😃

What would you like to know?

My YIM is Dr_lum36 if you would like to chat

What were the reasons your Dr gave you so many exams? where they uncomfortable or?

Frequent checks in childbirth is common, i can recall for both of mine - The doctor frequently checking my dilation etc. This happens with doctors, nurses, midwives throughout the process.

A friend of mine his daughter just had a kid he said the entire family like 10 people were in the room to see the baby come out. He even video taped it for facebook is that something new I never heard of such a thing but I'm a male never had kids.

My recollection from the births of my children is that there were multiple regular exams, both by labor and delivery nurses and by the doctor; I'd like to say they must have been on a schedule, every one or two hours for the nurses, with a few additional exams by the doctor.

For me exatly the same experiences as with "angielouwhos".

Exams were done regularly by both doctors as nurses/midwives.

Carla

Ah, Anne's good old birth fetish website! Thanks for sharing it, I forgot all about it 😄

If, indeed, during my two births I've had countless examenen during my pregnancy, and also during my birth, every 10 or 15 minutes were reviewing my dilation and progress of labor was very embarrassing at the time but now I remember me a little excited ....

Futurama111 - what a strange life you lead, you have posted here and elsewhere about your pregnancies and examinations you have received. Also you have posted in other topics such as "Ladies when do you schedule your gyn exams" and talked about your wife's examinations. Male or Female, that is the question? You are of course, not the first to post as such on this forum, but like the others have tripped yourself up on this one. Get real.

Oh and you might have just changed your status to female, but that doesn't account for your other posts where you refer to your wife.

When my X and I had our kid, there were vaginal exams at each doctor's visit. During labor, the exams came more frequently as delivery became imminent.

These exams evaluate the state of the cervix, both its flattening (effecement) and dilation. Delivery commonly occurs when the cervix in completely effaced and dilated to 10cm.

The biggest determinant of how many cervical exams you will receive in labor is the size and staffing of the hospital. If you deliver at a large and busy "teaching" hospital with students, interns, and residents, you will be checked more often for two reasons: one is teaching purposes and the other is they often take a more aggressive, "scientific" approach and want to make sure your progress is what is to be expected, given whether this is your first or subsequent baby. They may also need the room freed for the next patient. If your progress "falls off the curve," pitocin augmentation, rupturing membranes, an intra-uterine pressure catheter may be inserted, or a c-section may be done. At a small community hospital checks tend to much less frequent, as there are no trainees and the nurses are too busy and assume patients don't like to be "checked."

I wasn't checked until the last 4 weeks of pregnancy - and even then it was up to me whether or not I wanted it. I'm currently 27 weeks and will probably opt out until the very last week or so because being told you're 3cm at 37 weeks raises such hope - and then for you to remain 3cm dilated for 3 weeks is a complete buzz kill!

When we went to the hospital I was checked at least every hour or so. It was much more frequent the further along I became.

OMG Elizabeth you're right! What a poseur!