What does an internal examination feel like? Are there male doctors for internal examinations?

Internal examination is a necessary process for prenatal doctors to check whether the mother is ready for delivery. So what does it feel like? Does it hurt? What if you encounter a male doctor during the internal examination? When does the internal examination usually begin? Let's learn about it together~

What does internal examination feel like?

Internal examination is a routine gynecological examination. It is generally not painful, but it may cause a little discomfort. It mainly checks the condition of the vagina.

Are there male doctors for internal examination?

"Oh, it's 8 fingers dilated, 10 fingers dilated, the baby is coming." You are familiar with such words, but how do you judge how many fingers dilated it is? You can only know through internal examination.

The due date is approaching, the baby is full-term, and pregnant mothers who need a natural birth need to know the dilation of the cervix through internal examination. The process is that the doctor inserts two fingers into the vagina to determine how dilated it is and when you need to enter the delivery room.

What to do if you encounter a male doctor during internal examination

Most pregnant mothers are against internal examination, especially when they meet a male doctor. What should they do? It's too embarrassing. In fact, you can ask to change doctors. There are many doctors in obstetrics and gynecology hospitals every day, day and night, and there are babies coming out. If there is a male doctor on duty, you can ask if there is a doctor you can change to, or if there is a female doctor performing surgery. You can wait for a while. No matter what the male doctor says, it is very embarrassing. If the situation is urgent, you can't take care of that. The pregnant mother and the child are more important.

Is the internal examination painful?

This question is a concern for all pregnant mothers. Whether the internal examination is painful or not depends on the doctor who does it for you. When I gave birth, I was very nervous during the first internal examination. I was lying on the cold hospital bed. The doctor who did the internal examination was not gentle at all. His technique was very stiff and painful. I thought at that time, if the internal examination was so painful, wouldn’t giving birth be even more painful? Later, I asked a mother who had just given birth in the hospital which doctor did not hurt the internal examination. I changed to another doctor who was very gentle, made me relax, and had a very gentle technique. The internal examination was really not that painful. I finally had a natural birth with this doctor.

Is it okay not to do internal inspection?

Pregnant mothers who want to give birth naturally cannot avoid internal examination and must do it, because from 1 finger to 10 fingers of dilation, internal examination is needed to know, and B-ultrasound cannot replace it.

What exactly does the internal inspection check? Please see the picture below.

Hospitals generally only open hospitalization procedures when pregnant women have "uterine effacement", which means that the pregnant mother is really about to give birth. Internal examination is to check this and determine whether it is "uterine effacement".

When the cervix is ​​5 fingers dilated, the pregnant mother is already lying on the operating table in the delivery room, waiting to be 10 fingers dilated. The baby is about to be born and will meet the mother soon.