I didn't know where to post this, I recently went to hospital with really bad abdominal pain at 20 weeks pregnant, and after a couple of hours a male A&E doc said he needed to do an internal examination to ensure my cervix wasn't dilating. He didn't really take any care and was very rough we me, I was in tears and bruised DHs hand from gripping so hard. It sent me back to an incident in my past and I've been having flashbacks since then. Im now terrified of intimate examinations! Being my first pregnancy - how often are these done in pregnancy and what is it like during birth? It's so important to me to try for a vaginal birth but I'm so scared of it being marred by flashbacks. Please help
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