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Effaced Cervix

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What your cervix is doing means nothing about when labor will come. You could be 1cm and 40% and go into labor today or you could be 4cm and 100% at 37 weeks and sit like that until 41+ weeks (happened to me). This is why many doctors these...
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Dilation is the amount the cervix has opened and effacement is how much it has shortened. As the cervix gets ready for labor, first time moms tend to efface first, while second and later pregnancies usually start with dilation. Dilation and...
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You can start to dilate without hardly any effacement in some cases, but you won't progress much past a couple of centimeters if effacement doesn't occur. They sort of happen simultaneously.
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Very very close lets say your 9 cm. You should be right about there !
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thinning cervix (effacement) indicates that the lower uterine segment is preparing for birth. It stretches out and facilitates the dilatation process. Cervical effacement, although it is a very subjective assessment, can be determined by yo...
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Your cervix can become 100% effaced and slowly dilate, or you can first efface and then start to dilate. You are half way there. If you start to have contractions that occur every 5 minutes (from the beginning of one to the beginning of the...
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3 cm means how dilated your cervix is. You need to be to 10 do deliver the baby. Effaced means how thin the cervix is during this process, -3 means where the baby's head sits in the birth canal and your cervix is soft means it is preparing ...
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The length of your cervix is 1.2cm. During pregnancy the cervical length is >3cm. Percentages are used during manual exams. It is just a guesstimate and it's very subjective. Using an u/s is much more accurate. You probably are going to ...
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i dont know if you can feel it thin out but you can definatley feel pressure on it if the baby is pushing down
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Average human gestation is 40 weeks, so at only 36 weeks you likely have a few more weeks before it is time for your baby to arrive. A due date is simply a best guess estimate about when the baby will be born. Most full-term babies arrive s...
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