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Spotting After Dilation Check?

4 posts on this thread and the last post was on June 4th, 2005 2:49 PM
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Lee - June 1st, 2005 9:05 PM
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Has anyone had light spotting, not enough to even stain a pad, but there when you wipe after being checked for dilation? I am 40+ weeks and doc checked me today and I started spotting this afternoon. Please advice, comments....third pregnancy but never this before. I am kinda freaked out about it!


Toya - June 2nd, 2005 10:35 AM

Yes! As long as it's not a lot you're fine...vessels are broken during the process of checking for dilation and spotting is normal.


TeeTee - June 2nd, 2005 11:07 AM

Did they strip your membranes? They stripped mine twice and I spotted after each but never spotted after they just checked dilation.


Lee - June 2nd, 2005 11:22 AM

Toya and TeeTee- Thanks I feel much better! I hate calling my doctor with a ton of questions, sometimes they act as though they can't be bothered. I do not like any of the doctors in the practice and cannot wait to have this baby and my tubes tied so I do not have to deal with them anymore!



Sally - June 4th, 2005 2:49 PM

My doctor checked me this past week and said he would stir things up a bit. I bled like I was having period! But after a couple of hours, it really subsided. By the next day, it was just a little brown spotting. The cervix is very "fryable" (doctor's term) in the last few weeks of pregnancy.