Sentences with phrase «cervix effacement»
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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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At your next prenatal appointment, your doctor or midwife may want to perform an internal vaginal exam, to check your cervix for signs of dilation and effacement.
Dilation means how far your cervix has opened up and effacement means how much your cervix has thinned out.
Effacement: the thinning of the cervix.
The signs that women should watch out include diarrhea, the loss of mucus plug which comes with blood (sign that dilation and effacement of the cervix have begun) and the rapture of the membranes or water breaking.
But as labor begins, your cervix softens, shortens, and thins, and that, my friends, is called effacement.
«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.
As your due date approaches, you may experience mild contractions that help prepare your cervix for delivery: It becomes soft, stretchy and thin, a process called effacement.
«The final component of active management is taking care to diagnose labor only when progressive dilatation or effacement of the cervix is observed.
As labor begins, your cervix softens, shortens and thins (effacement).
For some women, effacement and dilation (the opening of the cervix) come on slowly and steadily over weeks.
At 0 percent effacement, the cervix is at least 2 centimeters (cm) long, or very thick.
The maturing baby and the aging placenta trigger a prostaglandin increase that softens the cervix in readiness for effacement and dilatation.
The maturing baby and the aging placenta trigger a prostaglandin increase that softens the cervix in readiness for effacement and dilatation.
Contractions in the last weeks may start the effacement and dilation of the cervix.
This can be due in part to the fact that the mother is relaxed, which makes each contraction more productive so that the baby descends faster and the rate of dilation and effacement of the cervix are also increased.