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 ...

As your due date approaches, you may be wondering how dilated your cervix is and if you are making progress toward delivery. While only your doctor can confirm cervical dilation, you can do a ...

Things that unfold in the labour room are quite unpredictable and most of the times they don t go as planned. This is why many women who plan for a vaginal birth might have to undergo a c-section ...

Cervical dilation sounds pretty intense, but if you are in labor, it's going to happen. The question is, how do you know if you're dilated and ready to deliver your baby? The cervix is a magical ...

The cervix changes in early pregnancy and throughout the menstrual cycle. Here's how to check your cervix for pregnancy.

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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 ...

After Chrissy Teigen and John Legend suffered a pregnancy loss in Sept. 2020, the cookbook author and model set out to dispel the stigma behind fertility struggles and infant loss. In partnership ...