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well i have heard two things one that your water will break within 72 hours or nothing will happen at all some women have had that done a couple of times and nothing happened i hope your not one of them cause im getting that done next week if i make it that long good luck

Hey, the sweeping of the membranes doesn't always work. With my first son it was done three different times and I was still induced. With my second son the dr swept my membranes and I started having labor contractions an hour later. It just depends on if your body's ready or not.

well i hope that my body is ready making me have all these d__n contractions and making me dialate to 4cm and 80%effaced if i dont have this baby by next weekend i think that im going to explode its getting to the point to where i can't dress myself or even wipe the front after i go pee cause my belly is soooooo huge i can't even pick up my daughters toys when she goes to bed i can't do anything that envloves waist down and then i can't sleep cause the minute i lay on my side contractions start but when i try to get up i have to roll out of bed but then they arent as strong but the minute i lay down again they come back sorry for rambling im just a little edgy merry christmas everyone

gypsyqueen thats a good question my doctor did that today and he siad the baby is extremely low and i was wondering the same thing

My last preg I got it done at 39 weeks at 40 weeks and at 41 weeks and I went into labor at 42+2 weeks

I've heard that if it's going to work it does within 3 days too. I had mine stripped on the 18th, but it didn't work.

i had mine stripped on the 26 th and had my son yesterday the 31st

I had one done yesterday (I'm 40wks + 3 days). My midwife told me that aprox 1 in 7 women who have it done will go into labout within 48 hours of having it done.

hi everyone, with this particular procedure i do believe it matters if your body is ready, w/ my first they did it once and it did the trick. (not sure how long after don't remember) w/ my secongd they had to do it twice, after the second time my water broke the next morning. my doc is going to do it to me next week, so hopefully it works again!!! Good luck everyone!!!

I had mine done once at 36w, it didn't work. I had it done the next time at 38w and 6d, around 11am, was scheduled for induction the next morning, started contractions around 2:30 a.m.