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Second pregnancy membrane sweep?

Just wondering i am 35 weeks pregnant and due to have a hospital appointment on 9th Dec i will be 37 weeks will they do a sweep then or do they wait until my due date has passed. Also just interested to know from other mums out there who went natural with there first did they go earlier with there second?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    You tend to only get a sweep after your due date has passed. I'm due on 13th Dec and if I've not had my princess by then my next midwife appt will be Tuesday 15th Dec and it will be in that appt that I'll have a sweep.

    With my son, I was 6 days late (boys are supposed to be lazier than girls and not want to come out), waiting for my princess to be born now........my midwife has advised me that it could be any day because of the labour symptoms that I've been having so, I never know and my daughter could be the opposite and be early!

    Good luck x x

    Source(s): Mummy to KIeran 8 and 37 weeks and 3 days with my princess x x
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    In the clinic I work in midwives arnt allowed to do a sweep until your 41 weeks pregnant. At 37 weeks the liklihood is a sweep wouldnt work as your cervix wont be ripe enough.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    I had 3 sweeps. One at 40-one weeks one at 40 two weeks and one 2 days after my 40 two week one. i'm undecided if it helped it exchange into approximately 2 days after on the day i exchange into think to be brought on that i went into labour. everybody is distinctive. i exchange into keen to supply something a circulate by utilising then lol.

  • 1 decade ago

    They only do a sweep if you are overdue unless there is a reason they want to induce you early. In my area they only do a sweep after 7 days of being overdue.

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