When my wife was eight and half months pregnant with our first child I had a a few days of work and i accompanied her to
the hospital where she was attending an antenatal appointment.
When the nurse called her name she got up to go into one of the rooms and nurse asked if she wanted me to come in as well.My wife motioned to follow her into the room and I was directed by the nurse to take a seat next to a desk.
My wife handed over the urine sample she taken with her and then the nurse checked her weight before asking her to take a seat on the examination couch so that her blood pressure could be taken.She then had my wife lie down on the couch,pull her maternity dress up to expose her now large belly and pull her tights down to her panties. A white sheet was placed over my wife's underwear to preserve some modesty.
A couple of minutes later an internal door opened and in walked a middle aged female doctor accompanied by a much younger male doctor who I would say was in his mid to late twenties around the same age as we were at that time. The female doctor was very nice and introduced her self to us as being one of the consultant obstetricians and her college was a junior house officer.
The consultant had a quick look at my wife's notes and then proceeded to feel her belly for the position of the baby.She then had the young doctor do the same before she announced that as my wife was due to give birth in around a couple of weeks she would like to do a quick internal examination.
The nurse then removed the sheet and asked my wife to take of her tights and panties.This was not the first time that she had had an internal exam during the pregnancy and knew the routine.Once her underwear was removed the consultant who had by now put on a pair of surgical gloves as had the young doctor asked my wife to draw up her legs and let them flop apart as much as she could.
The nurse had switched on the overhead lamp which shone on my wife's vulva. The nurse had put a bit of lubricant from a tube onto consultant's gloves before she inserted her fingers into the vagina for a feel around.She then invited the young doctor to also have a feel inside my wife's vagina after which they discarded their gloves in a waste bin whilst the nurse covered my wife with the sheet.
The consultant said that every thing looked and felt OK and that she thought that the birth should go without any problems.They then said good bye and left by the internal door leaving the nurse to help my wife to sort her clothes out.
Although I have been at the birth of all of our children that was the only time I have been present when my wife has under gone an internal examination.