To monitor the pregnancy, Check In is generally performed first at the age of about 34-36 weeks of pregnancy. Check In did by a doctor to assess the capacity or size of the pelvis, is relatively quite large, medium, or narrow to pass the fetus. That way, doctors can predict whether the delivery can be performed normally or not.

Check In performed again at 38-40 weeks of gestation, and before delivery. At that time, you usually begin to experience heartburn on a regular basis. This time the check in aims to monitor or assess the progress of labor, size of the opening of the cervix, had reached the opening number, or the extent to which the opening. Check In also done to monitor how the decline in fetal body parts into the pelvic cavity. The doctor also will check the condition of amniotic fluid, how membranes, if still intact or already broken.

Detection Other problems
Check In is generally not necessary at the beginning of pregnancy or first trimester. But Check In can be done if there is any indication, or you have a complaint that led to the suspicion of abnormalities or disorders. For example, the emergence of abnormal vaginal discharge accompanied by odor, itch, and color. In addition, if you complain about mucus discharge that makes you feel uncomfortable, or mole who feared miscarriage.

On this occasion, Check In do than to find out what the cause is also to assess how much white mucus in the birth canal, is still in its early stages normal or not.

Check In can also be done when there is bleeding during pregnancy, such as bleeding from the uterus that can have a bad impact on pregnancy. Check In time aims to find where the source, and what causes that can immediately be determined what action or therapy to be done.

Outside of pregnancy and childbirth, Check In can also be done if the alleged defects of the vagina (if there is inflammation, injury, tumors or lip cancer of the uterus), uterine mouth conditions (dry, slippery, open / closed), and fluid from the cavity of the uterus (the blood or white).

Usually before check in doctor will tell you not to shock or tension, especially if your first time experiencing Check In. To you who have previously experienced Check In, may be better able to prepare yourself to relax.

You are then asked to relax while breathing in order to relax. By creating such conditions, so when the muscles examined the body soft, supple, and relaxed, including the muscles around the vagina. As a result, instrument called a speculum or fingers so that the doctor did not feel the pain lessened. By being relaxed, disturbances in the womb can be more easily detectable. Even there is such as an infection or a lump in the birth canal, doctors felt it would be easy.

Conversely, if you feel tense or scared, reflexively muscles around the thighs will be closed to the inside. In fact, the position of both thighs should be in a position open enough. Also, the muscles around the vagina will shrink. In the end, the doctor will find it hard to examine how the inside of the vagina. Once you become too uncomfortable to even more pain or pain when done Check In.

Therefore, entrust the doctor will complete examination done, because it must match the profession and medical ethics. With your support and good communication with doctors, physicians will undoubtedly make Check In a careful and thorough. To be more comfortable atmosphere, there's no harm in asking accompanied by her husband, mother, or mother-in-law during the examination.