Sentences with phrase «cervical effacement»

Research shows that women who arrive at the hospital with «advanced cervical examination findings (cervical dilation and cervical effacement)» have a higher rate of a vaginal birth.
Your healthcare practitioner may also want to do an internal exam to see if you are dilated (when the cervix begins to open) and / or experiencing cervical effacement (thinning of the cervix).

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«If a woman is told to stay in bed due to vaginal bleeding, preterm labor, early cervical changes (incompetent cervix, effacement), high blood pressure or preeclampsia or placental abruption, masturbation would likely be unwise,» Blumenfeld says.
In women with preterm labor symptoms in the late preterm period, SMFM recommends waiting for evidence of true preterm labor, such as a cervical dilatation of at least three centimeters or effacement of at least 75 % before treatment with betamethasone.
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