Stripping membranes

[hatfieldsarah]

What do you think of membrane stripping?

I just got checked this am and I have been 2 cm and 60% effaced for 3 weeks. I saw the OB today for the first time and he asked if I wanted to have my membranes stripped and I said give it a shot.

Has this worked for anyone else? I am 39 weeks today and about ready to be done

[hatfieldsarah]

Just saw the other post on this below, oops.

[Shiloh]

Today after 12 hours of prodromal labour I think its a bang up great idea...I got KY, latex gloves and google ...between those three all I need is someone willing to stick their hands up there and get this started...

It worked for me for my second within 24 hours he was born I was also 40weeks plus 2 days after 4 days of prodromal labour...which the prodromal then now seems short....someone shoot me

[aquablue]

mm...I'm more the wait for baby to tell us when she's ready.

With DD#1, OB stripped me at 39 weeks and I was only 1-2 cm dilated. Btw, I had NOT given her permission to do it so I'm still miffed at that. I am very very lucky that I was able to deliver DD vaginally b/c my labor did end up stalling once I got to the hospital.

Anywho, if baby isn't giving your body signals that she/he is ready, the stripping won't do anything to speed labor and/or it might lead you to c-section.

[holothuroidea]

It sounds pretty lame to me. The instances where labor really needs to just be "kick started" in order to proceed are probably pretty rare. Otherwise, you're just irritating your uterus... and my uterus is pretty irritated already. :

[jennykilbo]

Originally Posted by Shiloh

Today after 12 hours of prodromal labour I think its a bang up great idea...I got KY, latex gloves and google ...between those three all I need is someone willing to stick their hands up there and get this started...

That is just worth quoting

I REALLY considered letting my mw do it... but I sense that Allison is not ready and that if I did it or had it done, that I would not really be trusting what's really going on in there. So it's a no go for me.

[Shiloh]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2006/jul/25/research.highereducation1

I am just kidding (for now
but you can see how a woman at her weakest with a pushy take charge OB will consent to just about anything including a Blonsky....

[radiowave]

I have been 4 or 5 cm dilated and 80% (and then a week ago, 90%) effaced for two weeks-am due on Sunday. Yesterday at my midwife appt. he asked if I'd like to have my membranes swept-since I am v. uncomfortable if not in pain all the time because of my spd, and I am not sleeping and my blood pressure is a little high. He did it, only took a sec. Nothing has changed since then. I trust him and if I don't move along any further by Tuesday he will do it again.