Comments on: Can I Refuse Cervical Checks in Labor? Declining cervix exams in pregnancy. https://pregnurse.com/refuse-cervical-checks/ Preparing you from bump to bassinet. Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:05:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hilary Erickson, BSN RN https://pregnurse.com/refuse-cervical-checks/#comment-4268 Fri, 23 Sep 2022 19:26:15 +0000 https://pregnurse.com/?p=1896#comment-4268 In reply to April.

I very much agree that kidney pain is most often different, but not always. It’s complicated, very complicated.

]]> By: April https://pregnurse.com/refuse-cervical-checks/#comment-4220 Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:58:05 +0000 https://pregnurse.com/?p=1896#comment-4220 If you read this article just beware of what she is saying might not be true. Real labor contractions that are going to continue and not stop, feel like a hardening of your stomach and electricity flowing through your uterus. I have had these types of contractions and have been completely closed but it progressed to labor. Kidney pain is nothing like labor pain so I find it incredibly hard to believe that someone would just be in pain in general, be pregnant and then go to labor and delivery. Labor and delivery always asks you to call firsts and they would also hook you up to a machine that detects baby’s heart rate and contractions. So if someone is there with kidney pain, the first sign would be that they would not be having contractions as kidney pain is not waning if it is serious as a contraction would be as they come and go and start and stop. Now cervical checks in hospitals are necessary, not that uncomfortable depends on the woman (I have been through it many times through my five soon to be sixth ordeals in pregnancy) and they are necessary but not because it could be some other pain you are experiencing (which is ridiculous) but for the hospital to admit you. Cervical checks do not tell you how long someone will be in labor, but the hospitals need to know this so they can have an idea of whether you are in active labor or not.

]]> By: What to Do When Your Epidural Doesn't Work - The Pregnancy Nurse https://pregnurse.com/refuse-cervical-checks/#comment-3421 Mon, 16 May 2022 15:20:45 +0000 https://pregnurse.com/?p=1896#comment-3421 […] to know that when I call them). Of course, you always have the chance to say you’d prefer to refuse a vaginal exam. Always up to […]

]]> By: Tips to Saying No to Your Provider - The Pregnancy Nurse https://pregnurse.com/refuse-cervical-checks/#comment-2016 Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:17:00 +0000 https://pregnurse.com/?p=1896#comment-2016 […] instance, maybe you don’t want any vaginal exams, but they are seeing the baby’s heart rate go down deeply with each contraction, and […]

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