(On the downside, you may need to pee more often because your baby's pressing on your bladder.) If you experienced heartburn during pregnancy, it might now improve. When your baby drops, you might feel less pressure just below your ribcage, making it easier to catch your breath.
Lightening means your baby has "dropped" and now rests lower in your pelvis. If this is your first pregnancy, you may feel what's known as lightening a few weeks before labor starts. Still, here are some of the early signs that labor may be near: Baby has dropped Rather than predicting that labor is imminent, these can just be symptoms of being pregnant near your due date. Not all women experience all of these signs – again, this is very individual – but if you do feel like your baby has dropped lower, for example, or you have some mucousy discharge or more Braxton Hicks contractions than usual, you may be close to labor day!īefore you get excited about labor starting, remember that many of these signs and symptoms can precede labor by weeks. In the final days or weeks before your due date, you may notice one or more signs that labor is near. Read more about the stages of labor and delivery. (You'll be pushing during this stage.) The third stage starts with your baby's birth and ends with the delivery of the placenta. Once you're fully dilated, the second stage starts as your baby descends into the vaginal canal and is birthed.
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This stage has two phases, the latent phase, when your cervix is slowly dilating from 0 to 6 cm, and the active phase, when stronger contractions dilate the cervix more rapidly from 6 cm to full dilation at 10 cm.
In the first stage, contractions thin (efface) and open (dilate) your cervix. Your body will go through different stages of labor during childbirth, and you'll experience a number of telltale signs of each stage. Labor is the process of delivering your baby – and the placenta – from your uterus through your vagina and into the world. While in the movies women have two contractions and deliver a baby, in the real world labor is typically a longer and unmistakable process. While every woman's experience is different, learning the typical signs of labor can help you feel more prepared when it does happen. Are you having Braxton Hicks or "real" contractions? Is that your mucus plug or normal vaginal discharge? In late pregnancy, it's easy to wonder if every symptom you're having is an early signs of labor.
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