Sweep offered at 40 weeks?

[hairytaleofnewyork]

apparently this is policy in my area with first babies.

I am presuming I can just say "no thank you" and that'll be that?

I don't see any need to rush things along without clear medical need so would rather just wait.

Anyone got experience of this?

Oh and my uterus did not contract and i lost 2.6 litres of blood so I was one of those women for whom the intervention was life saving! Thank God for medical science!

Congratulations on the birth of your DD :) Thank you for letting us know how you got on.

I will say that I am very glad that they were able to stop the bleeding and that you and your DD are well :)

I know that now isn't really the time for me to mention this, but I will anyway just in case someone stumbles across the thread in the future - intervention, as well as being helpful (synto, epidural and forceps on their own, never mind as a combination) is a risk factor for uterine atony and PPH and may well have contributed to the problem rather than just solving it.

I say that as someone who had synto, epidural, forceps, 3a tear and PPH as well, so I'm not coming at this from the view of someone who has never accepted or is completely against medical intervention! I think it's always worth bearing in mind the risks of intervention as well as the many, many benefits :)

Useful info. If they hadn't induced me I would have had a risk of infection as waters had broken but I didn't start effacing or dilating.