![]() Here’s what I wrote about the evidence in Inducing Labour: making informed decisions: Many were deemed to be of low quality and, where there is a difference between the women who had a sweep and the women who didn’t, it was a small difference. The results of studies that have looked at this have been very varied. However, you do not have to accept any intervention, including a stretch and sweep. This is understandable, because midwives know that many women do not like induction and it can lead to unwanted consequences. In other areas, midwives offer it because they know that women will be pressured to undergo hospital induction if they do not go into labour by a certain time. ![]() Stretch and sweeps are discussed in the NICE guidance in the UK. Some hospitals have guidelines that tell the midwives that work for them to offer a stretch and sweep to all women. In other words, it is a way to try to induce labour. It’s a procedure in which a midwife or doctor will, while doing a vaginal examination, sweep a finger around and/or within the opening of your cervix (the lowest part of your womb).Ī stretch and sweep is offered in the hope that it will stimulate the uterus and bring labour on earlier than it might otherwise have begun. ![]() But what is this, why and how is it done, does it work and can you say no? Many women are offered a ‘stretch and sweep’ in late pregnancy, sometimes on more than one occasion.
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