Dilation and effacement are your body's way of getting ready for labor – your cervix gradually opens (dilates) and thins out (effaces) to help your baby make that grand entrance. This process ...

1-3 “Physicians have been relying on dilation technology that is mostly unchanged from the original cervical dilator invented in 1879,” said Lucas Churchill, Vice President of Research ...

A cervix dilation chart can help people to understand what's happening at each stage of labor - as the cervix expands more and more as the birth process goes on, eventually allowing women to start ...

The later stages of dilation were illustrated using a Milkybar egg for 7cm, followed by a Button egg to represent 8cm dilated. When the cervix dilates to the size of the Rolo egg, it's almost time ...

SINGAPORE – Her son weighed just 700g when he was born at 24 weeks after she spent the two weeks prior in hospital due to vaginal bleeding and cervix dilation. Ms So Bee Leng’s son ...