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strep b testing! help!

So I have my 36 week appt today in a few hours. My Dr will be doing the strep b test. So my question is, from your experiences did they also swab your rectum? I just want to be prepared.
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Thanks ladies. Just wanted to be prepared for any invasion to the back door lol. I'll just expect the worse. Baby turnip-how many centimeters dialted were you?
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My doctor swabbed around the area, non evasively i barely felt it
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4715985 tn?1371582997
had mine down monday and yes they do lol I was all worked up about it, I think I took like three baths the day before and I was ready to go for a full out waxing but I chickened out lol plus I thought to myself that the dr probably has seen worst lol in the end, the vaginal one was worst I think, because he really went in there and scrubbed and the rectal one was just a little tap. I don't even think he went inside lol.......Now the dilation check was painful! he put his fingers in so deep and when he said he was touching my son's head I could feel pressure and it was not comfortable at all! lol so really the swab in the rectum is not that bad :)
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they did like the outside of mine but she didnt stick it in there or anything lol
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Just had it done this morning and yes ma'am they get right up in there lol
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5776141 tn?1380070330
Mine didn't. She moved the q tip down towards there but never touched.
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4484425 tn?1384228334
They did at mine but I have heard some doctors don't.
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