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 ...