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- Path: sparky!uunet!tessi!allen
- From: allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren)
- Subject: Re: Effacing (?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.202237.1292@tessi.com>
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
- References: <1992Dec16.223805.27394@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <1992Dec21.184548.22623@ttinews.tti.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:22:37 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- reid@metis.tti.com (Reid Kneeland) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec16.223805.27394@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> jschwarz@lonestar.utsa.edu (Jan A. Schwarz) writes:
- >>Hi. My daughter went to the doctor today. She is 36 weeks. He told
- >>her that she is 40% effaced (this has been just since last Thursday).
- >>
- >>Any thoughts as to how long it may be before she has this darling
- >>baby girl? I knew nothing about effacing when I had my two (years
- >>ago).
-
- >It's impossible to tell. Engagement, effacement, and even dilation are
- >not accurate predictors of when labor will begin. Some women walk
- >around effaced and dilated for days or even weeks before real labor
- >starts. Others do all their effacement and dilation in three hours of
- >labor. The best you can say is "sometime in the next month, probably".
-
- Be careful about what you speak of concerning effacement and dilation.
- You won't find many women walking around with 100% effacement who are
- NOT going to be going into labor within the next 24-48 hours. A woman
- can be at a certain percentage of effacement AND be a couple of centimeters
- dilated at the same time, but if she is 100% effaced, there is an
- excellent chance that she will kick into active labor within 24 hours,
- if not sooner, since all that is left at this point is to dilate to
- 10 centimeters and push the little critter out. Remember that "effacement"
- is a term used to denote the thinning out of the cervical wall.
-
- allen
-