Hey Peeps - this is my first time posting here. I’m currently 35wks and 4days with my third. My first is 11 y/o and my second is 7 y/o.
I went to the triage care at my local antenatal clinic last night, I genuinely thought I may have broken my waters (previous two pregnancies my waters were broke by midwife during active labour) - but this post isn’t about the fact I had just wet myself whilst vomiting. The midwife/nurse lady did a cervix check and she told me that my cervix was open ‘a little’, and that it meant nothing as I have had previous pregnancies and your cervix doesn’t always close properly when you have had babies before. Prior to this exam, I have been internally examined at the beginning of Feb and beginning of Jan by a Dr (who assured me my cervix was closed).
I have never ever heard anyone, or read anywhere or been told by any other health professional about having an open cervix because of prior pregnancies, and I just wanted to hear other people’s experiences? Because with the weeks of intense and irratic BHs, vomiting, extreme nesting 1am -4am, feeling like I’m ill, loss of appetite and all the other ‘wonderful’ experiences, I feel more like I’m in an extremely long and slow build up to labour.