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Q: Effacement

asked by: newlife on July 16th, 2004

Active User, very eHealthy

Okay I am officially lost. First I was told that the closer you are to 100, the closer you are to delivering, then the closer to 0 the closer you are to delivering, now the closer you are to 100, the closer you are to delivering. What is it?

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KariM1804

replied on July 16th, 2004

Active User, very eHealthy

Its closer to 100% because I am 80% and he said thats getting very close and the time before that I was 70%. Im pretty sure thats right?!

lauren22

replied on July 16th, 2004

Active User, very eHealthy

Its closer to 100%! You might be getting effacement and "stations" confused! The station of the baby moves from negative numbers to zero and then to postive numbers. So like -1 station, 0 station, 1 station..... 2 is like crowing or something! Thats just off the top of my head, dont hold me to that!

bd1012

replied on July 16th, 2004

Extremely eHealthy

Um. What's effacement? I'm not pregnant so I have never heard of the term before, and stations?? Confused

babyrae

replied on July 16th, 2004

Extremely eHealthy

Effacement is the thinning of the cervix and they use percentage to tell how thin it is. Station is where the babys head is at... Like 2 station would mean the babys head is crowning and 0 station would mean the baby's head is nicely in the pelvis (not sure if I got the numbers exact but oh well).

Shauna

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