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 ...

There are 3 stages of labor. Active labor begins at about 5-6 cm of dilation. You need to be 10 cm dilated to deliver vaginally. After the birth, you’ll deliver the placenta. The cervix, which is the ...

Cervical effacement is a term to describe thinning of the cervix, the lower end of your uterus that connects with your vagina. This thinning occurs before and during labor and helps prepare your ...

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

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 ...