how many cm should you be dilated before going to hospital?
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Generally speaking, once you are dilated past 5 or 6 centimeters and having regular contractions, most practitioners will be fairly insistent that you remain in the hospital or birth center until your baby is born.
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The catheter presses against your cervix, encouraging it to dilate open. Once your cervix is dilated to 3 centimeters, the Foley catheter falls out on its own. In some cases, this is enough to start active labor. If not, your doctor might resort to a different method of induction.
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Stage two: full dilation and pushing Once the cervix has reached 10 cm, it is time to push the baby out. Contractions continue but also produce a strong urge to push. This urge might feel like an intense need to have a bowel movement. This stage can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.
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The part of labor that comes right before delivery might be the toughest yet -- but it may only take about 15 minutes to an hour. Tell your doctor if you feel like you want to start pushing. She might tell you to wait 'til your cervix opens up more -- about 10 centimeters wide.
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When your cervix is dilated 10 centimeters, it is open all the way. This is when a woman can usually begin to push.
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Some women begin dilating at 36 weeks and go to 41 weeks before they finally go into labor at 7 centimeters. Some women are checked with a routine cervical exam and found to be just "a finger tip dilated," then go into full blown, active labor 24 hours later.
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During active labor, your cervix will dilate from 6 centimeters (cm) to 10 cm. Your contractions will become stronger, closer together and regular.
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The cervix can be dilated to 1 centimeter for weeks before the beginning of labor. This extent of dilation only signals that the cervix is starting to prepare for labor. Most pregnant women spend some time wondering when they will go into labor, especially as the due date draws near.
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The second stage of labor begins when your cervix is fully dilated at 10 centimeters. This stage continues until your baby passes through the birth canal, vagina, and is born.
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Once you begin active labor, you'll have strong contractions around a minute long and 3-5 minutes apart. It may be hard to talk or move easily. At this point, your cervix will be dilated 3-10 centimeters.
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Labor Restrictions It may be that you must be at a certain point in labor, like four (4) centimeters before an epidural can be given. 2﻿ Other hospitals may decide that epidural should not be given after a certain point of labor, for example when you've reached full dilation (10 centimeters).
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The active stage of labor can range from a woman dilating anywhere from 0.5 cm per hour up to 0.7 cm per hour. How fast your cervix dilates will also depend on if it's your first baby or not. Mothers who have delivered a baby before tend to move more quickly through labor.
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The active phase. After your cervix dilates to around 3 cm (1 inch), you will enter the active phase of labour, where things really start to get rolling.
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You generally start dilating in the ninth month of pregnancy as your due date gets closer. The timing is different in every woman. For some, dilation and effacement is a gradual process that can take weeks or even up to a month. Others can dilate and efface overnight.
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The general advice has been to wait until the contractions have been five minutes apart for an hour before you call and make your way to the hospital.
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During labor, the cervix opens to accommodate the passage of baby's head into the vagina, which is around 10 centimeters (cm) dilated for most term babies. If the cervix isn't open, for example, a woman isn't in labor.
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Typically, a cervix that is 10 centimeters dilated means you are ready to give birth. It's possible to be a few centimeters dilated for several weeks before labor occurs, though.