Internal exam every time she went to Doctor

Ladies during your pregnancy did you receive an internal exam everytime you visited your OBGYN. Below is an account from a husband who's wife got an internal everytime she went to her OBGYN.

I am a male who was extremely turned on watching my wife have the prenatal examinations. I always managed to end up down the business end just behind her male doctor. She always managed to get an internal exam evertime she went to see him which was once a month for the first 8 months then once a week for the last month, which comes to about 12 or 13 internal examinations...which I was present for every one. Most times she would just wear a skirt and hike it up and take her panties off for the exam but sometimes she would have jeans on. The KY does make it nice and slippery when we got home. She has never let me play doctor with her.

Paul

Canberra, Australia

Not a lady, but I can recount the experience with my wife for two pregnancies, here in the U.S.

The initial visit was a complete exam including breast exam, pelvic exam and Pap smear (rectal exam as well on the first occasion), as well as urinalysis to confirm the pregnancy. Subsequent visits were on a monthly basis and included urinalysis, weight, blood pressure check, listening to the fetal heartbeat and a check of the fundal height (tape measure check to determine how far the top of the uterus is above the pubic bone). I did note that the male doctor in the practice would always lower her panties far enough to position the end of the tape measure within her pubic hair, while the two female docs in the practice would do it over her panties.

There was no routine internal exam again until the seventh month. At that time, exams were bi-weekly and included a digital examination to determine if the cervix was ripening; the same procedure was followed at each visit through the last month, but the frequency of exams was weekly.

It would be really, really irresponsible for a doctor to do internal exams at every prenatal appointment in real life. Every time an internal exam is done, there is the risk that bacteria and infection can be introduced and cause serious complications. What precisely would they be checking for the first 7 months or so, anyway? (The only reason it would be remotely acceptable, at least in the US, is if perhaps the woman had a history of EXTREMELY premature labor or fluid leak.)

I had a very high risk pregnancy and my next pregnancy will be even higher risk, I'm already seeing my regular ob and a high risk ob just to plan for it...but my doctors never checked me internally until the end. And they definitely won't be checking me this time, either.

After the initial exams for my two pregnancies, internal exams did not come until later. The other exams were very much as DrYesss described. Late in each pregnancy of course the occur. I did have a vaginal ultrasound with one of mine also.

I only had 2 in the beginning

I had one in the beginning and then not again until my last trimester.

Every time a finger, gloved or not, goes up there, there's a risk for infection. It's not standard practice at all.

But I did love it toward the end of pregnancy when things were nice and crazy! The worst exam I ever got was while in labor, though. Geesh, nothing erotic about that one.