In preparation for the birth of your baby, your cervix effaces (thins and stretches) and dilates (opens) so your baby can fit through the birth canal. This cervical ripening can begin days or even ...
Tricia Brockway, a labor and delivery nurse whose mission is to empower women through information, recently drummed up a dilation chart that's easy to understand. In an enlightening Instagram post, ...
IT’S common knowledge that in order for a woman to start pushing during childbirth, her cervix needs to dilate to ten centimetres wide – but it’s hard to visualise just how big that is. But an image ...
The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital has come up with an innovative way to demonstrate to women in labour how dilated their cervix is - or will be - using a variety of chocolate Easter eggs. The cervix ...
Shared on Facebook by American singer-songwriter Steffanie Christi'an - the image shoes a circular wooden board with ten circles each representing the stages of a dilating cervix IT’S common knowledge ...
The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital has come up with an innovative way to demonstrate to women in labour how dilated their cervix is - or will be - using a variety of chocolate Easter eggs. The cervix ...