My midwife gave me a sweep this morning (40+1) and it wasn’t exactly painful just really uncomfortable. Immediately after I felt nauseous and then incredibly faint, in fact I thought I was a lot to faint! She was talking to me and I could barely hear her, everything sounded odd and under-water-like and seemed slow-motion. I’ve never actually fainted before but this is what it felt like. She sat me up and gave me some water and I recovered pretty quickly.
Has anyone experienced similar? I have been googling it and it’s not very common but supposedly caused by the shock to your cervix and the rush of hormones being released.
Not concerned but a bit surprised as i was never aware of this side affect from any friends!
Since the sweep I have been feeling a bit crampy and had some slightly mucusy spotting. So fingers crossed it has done the trick and things start moving soon!