If you're pregnant and getting close to your due date, you may be hoping to determine when you'll go into labor by checking your cervical dilation. Some pregnant people hope they can determine if ...

Let us tell you about labor stages in detail. First stage of labor- Dilation of the cervix During the first stage of labor, contractions help your cervix dilate and begin to open. This is called ...

Contractions and dilation (opening) of the cervix before 37 weeks of pregnancy are considered preterm, or premature, labor. A normal pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks after the first day of the last ...

For most women what happens is you start having more frequent contractions and the contractions, ...you know you're close to term, and the contractions get more frequent, they get stronger, they ...

As labor begins, the mother's body produces ... Stage Two begins when the cervix is fully dilated and ends with the delivery of the baby. At the beginning of this stage, also called the "pushing ...

Braxton Hicks vs labour contractions—whats the difference Get expert advice on recognising signs of labour and preparing for delivery ...

which involves dilating the cervix and curetting the uterine contents. Dilatation and curettage, also called as D&C, is a common surgical procedure done on women to scrape and collect the tissue ...

The Friedman curve, the gold standard for rates of cervical dilation and fetal descent during active labor, was developed almost 50 years ago. To define a modern curve for normal labor ...

Our purpose was to describe serum LDH isoenzymes 24–30 hours post-delivery to determine if cervical dilation rates following labor admission were associated with a particular LDH profile.