[Yaelle]

Well, they are checking the cervix anyway at that time, so if the doctor just wanted to check off her chart as having had a pap done by the end of that year, they might have just done it. I imagine that if Laci had shown any signs of the cervix opening they would not have risked anything, but it takes just 1 second with a swab and really shouldn't risk starting labor or infection. Laci was surely allowed to have sex at that time, and that (especially with Scott!) would have risked a lot more.

[Devil_Anse]

Makes sense to me!

Even back when I was pregnant, they would never tell a couple not to have sex, lol.

That strep test, though, that's a newer thing.

In addition to the usual, I had the Rh thing to consider. Rhogam and all that. I sure am glad Rhogam had been invented by the time I grew up, lol.