In preparation for the birth of your baby, your cervix effaces (thins and stretches) and dilates (opens) so your baby can fit through the birth canal. This cervical ripening can begin days or even ...

Cervical dilation sounds pretty intense, but if you are in labor, it's going to happen. The question is, how do you know if you're dilated and ready to deliver your baby? The cervix is a magical ...

As your due date approaches, you may be wondering how dilated your cervix is and if you are making progress toward delivery. While only your doctor can confirm cervical dilation, you can do a ...

The World Health Organization released new guidelines that state women should have more say in the labor and delivery room. Among the recommendations, the guidelines reject the traditional benchmark ...

Even if your life is blissfully untouched by childbirth, you'll have a rough idea about what the process entails. Every once in a while, however, someone kindly gives us an unflinching, unfiltered, ...

If you've been told you have a short cervix, here's what that means and how it might affect your pregnancy and baby.

A maternity hospital has shared a graph of Easter eggs depicting cervix dilation to help people understand what happens during birth. The graph, which was created by the parenting blog KalmaBaby, was ...

Early dilation of the cervix, a neck of tissue connecting the uterus with the vagina, during pregnancy can lead to premature delivery. Women in their second trimester of pregnancy with a cervix ...

Here's what happens during each stage of labor – from how long each stage lasts to what you might feel. Labor happens in three stages — early labor and dilation, pushing and delivery, and finally, ...

A former labor and delivery nurse turned her love of making pottery into an educational moment by using clay to show how a woman's cervix expands during birth. Jenny Recotta, 36, from Virginia, is ...