If you see a consultant obstetrician or registrar just prior to or on your due date the chances are you may hear these words: “I’ll just run my finger around the cervix to help get things moving.” Ever wonder what that means? Well, basically, what has become a routine procedure is effectively an intervention that may, as the clinicians say, “get things moving” but it may also cause unwanted side effects that may set off a chain of events you weren’t expecting and it is important to know what this may mean for [...]