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 ...

Tricia Brockway, a labor and delivery nurse whose mission is to empower women through information, recently drummed up a dilation chart that's easy to understand. In an enlightening Instagram post, ...

IT’S common knowledge that in order for a woman to start pushing during childbirth, her cervix needs to dilate to ten centimetres wide – but it’s hard to visualise just how big that is. But an image ...

Growing new life inside you often results in a whole lot of food cravings, ranging from pickles to candy and beyond. But a UK-based yoga studio called Kalma Baby put a chocolate-centric spin on ...

Shared on Facebook by American singer-songwriter Steffanie Christi'an - the image shoes a circular wooden board with ten circles each representing the stages of a dilating cervix IT’S common knowledge ...