Strech & Sweep..

My midwife goes away next week untill the 14th April, i get to see her once more next week and then see my back up one every week untill my midwife comes back, Im due on the 16th April and on Tuesday night when me and my partner were at my midwife appointment she suggested that if i wanted she could do a stretch and sweep on me next week at our appointment before she goes away...She also told me that bubs is now 1-2/5ths engaged..Im not too sure why she suggested doing this. Has anyone done this before they were actually due and how did it work ? Did it make labour start or anything ?

I know everyone is different but im only 37 weeks tomorrow and when i see her next week ill be basically 38 weeks, is this not too early ??

Unusual for a MW to offer to do it before term. Most will only do it at 40 weeks, mine was 41 weeks.   And if the baby's not ready, it won't do anything.

I thought usually it was done at 40 weeks too ...

and I agree with Flissty , if baby aint ready , it wont do anything .
With Caitlyn it worked , Ty I had 2 s&s neither worked he still came a week after them

I also thought they only did them at 40 weeks+ . i had one on my due date at 8pm and my waters broke 4 hours later at midnight and had baby at 1.25pm in the arfternoon , so mine was definatly successful , but also its becuase she was all engaged and ready to go and i was already 2cm dialated before she did the stretch and sweep . I agree- if babys not ready , i dont think it will do anything . 

good luck with everything tho  you have an amazing journey ahead

I had 2 - The first one was around 40 weeks and the second was 5 days after my due date. On my birthday, yay

The first one was bloody painful because my cervix was in completely the wrong place and she almost couldn't reach it, ie not ready yet. She stopped that one quite quickly since it wasn't working so it was never going to do much, but I did get some of my show overnight.

The second one wasn't painful at all since my cervix had come well forward and I was looking ready to go, so she stretched me to 2cm and while it didn't seem to do a thing I went into labour all by myself 4 days later.

I had about three but with all of them I was in labour MW was trying to get things to get moving abit more. Weird that they would offer that at 38weeks I would think. I was also well engaged MW couldn't even feel DD's ears at my 37week check up.

Hun I'm 19 also, trust me they've seen it all before!! I was embarrassed early on but you soon get over it lol all the best!!

Ooh I second the hot baths. (You might want to have someone there to help you get out though) Even if they don't work they're so nice and relaxing... Wish I had time for a hot bath now!