She thought that was an ok idea and stripped accordingly, lay down on the examining table and put her feet in the stirrups. She told me how she went to her usual prenatal visit at 36 weeks and the doctor said it was time for a vaginal check to see how things were coming along. That particular post was prompted by a brief encounter with a new mother. And horrifically, even more hundreds wrote to share their stories of non-consenting, painful, and violating membrane sweeping when there was no reason for it, aside from the care provider’s decision that they had agency over their patient’s vagina and could do what they wanted when they wanted.
I also heard from hundreds of women whose births were ruined by days of painful, non-progressing contractions triggered by a membrane sweep that ended up in a fully medicalised all-the-interventions arrival for their baby that they didn’t want. In general, the sentiment was that I should most definitely be having sexual relations with myself, after which, I should be locked up and forever silenced. The post went viral and I received hate messages and emails from around the world defending this procedure.
I talked about its risks and the fact that the clients I worked with called it a sexual assault when done without consent I’ve written about many topics over the years but nothing has ever generated as much discussion, opposition, and vitriol as challenging the cherished routine membrane sweep/stripping, aka stretch-and-sweep.Ī few years ago, I wrote a post about how I’d like to see the routine, prior-to-40-weeks, without-medical-indication membrane sweep banned from obstetrical and midwifery practice.
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