Cervical Checks – are they necessary?

We talk about cervical checks in Hypnobabies.  How they don’t really show anything, except how you are at that exact minute.

Certainly before birth there is no need to check.  What about during birth?  What about before pushing?

Here is an interesting post by a midwife who says no, not really. 

It inspired me to listen to one of the Trust Birth Conference talks I downloaded about pushing.  Many of the midwives feel you don’t need to check at all.  If you don’t tell mom when to push, or even suggest it, she will figure it out all on her own.    Trust our bodies! 

Next time***  I think I will choose not to have any cervical exams.  I have a homebirth midwife all picked out and I know she would be ok with that. 

*** I always say this, but really probably we are done having babies, which is sad in some ways, but feels right in others.