delphmoon, I had the same experience as you, twice over. I have haemmoraged with all of my births (angels included) and with DD's birth adn DS2's births, I had the same thing done. It is excruciating, but they do it to try to get out what is causing you to haemmorage and to try to prevent you from having to go to theatre, which would mean general anaesthetic and a D&C to stop your bleeding. I didn't remember I had it done when I had DD until the doctor did it to me with DS2. It is amazingly painful and looking back I have no idea how I got through it. I had my doula with me the second time and she was in tears too. But to me, that is seperate to my births. I have seperated my births from the afters (the haemmoraging ect) because if I put them together I would have never done it again!