Can an internal cause you to have contractions?

I had my 38 week appointment today( still can't believe I made it to 38 weeks with all my pre-term labor scares)

Anyway she did an internal and since this morning I'm having a lot of contractions. They are all over the place but still coming on pretty strong. Is it possible the internal stirred something up a little? I was only just 1cm.

Re: Can an internal cause you to have contractions?

Yep. It totally depends on how ready your body is, but internals can definately bring on contractions.

I had an internal earlier in the week and it brought on contractions for a few hours. Unfortunately, they stopped eventually, so no baby for me yet! But I've heard of other women who actually went into labor shortly after an internal.

Re: Can an internal cause you to have contractions?

do you know if your doctor "played around" while she was doing the internal. a number of my friends went for their last internal and they went into labor about 48 hours later - come to find out that the doctor did some "poking" around to get things started.

Re: Can an internal cause you to have contractions?

Not to be TMI but she was in there for a litte longer then normal feeling around. So maybe she did? That would be so nice if I went into labor. I'm ready for this baby lol