If you've seen movies that feature childbirth, you can probably recall when the actor playing the doctor says, "They're 10 centimeters"—they are talking about dilation of the cervix. The cervix ...

Black women are diagnosed with cervical insufficiency more than any other demographic in the U.S. We should be having more ...

As you near your due date, you might be wondering about your labor and when will it start. The common things that most of us know about pregnancy is that your cervix starts to get soft, thin and ...

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 ...

Keith Eddleman, MD (cont.) At that point, you know, depending upon where your cervix is starting out. If it's starting out a little dilated or if it started out closed, you go through the early ...

Results: The following characteristics, present at admission to hospital, were associated with dystocia during labour (OR, 95% CI): dilatation of cervix < 4 cm (1.63, 1.38-1.92), tense cervix (1. ...

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 ...