Thanks for the clarification. Will definitely chat to him about it. Talk to your OB about your fears and getting a stitch. From my experience, OBs don't like performing the procedure because of the small risk of infection. I'm more willing to take that risk rather than the consequences of not having it. Don't want to scare you but just want you to be aware that my OB put me on a week of bedrest for a wait and see approach and that week was detrimental for me. I went from my cervix slightly starting to shorten to 4cm dilated in 7 days. Sorry I really don't want to scare you but I have found IC is such a hard condition to diagnose as there are so many variables and I've heard most OBs won't put a stitch in unless you have suffered from 2 or more late losses - and we just can't have that!