I am nearly five days past my due date so feeling a bit panicked and have started thinking about my first birth 6 years ago. I went into labour a few days earlier than my due date. Had contractions over night and a show then the contractions stopped for a few hours when I fell asleep then started up again and my waters broke a couple of hours later.
Went to hospital at 11am and was only 1.5 cms dilated but there was meconium in the waters so was told I may need a c section. They started monitoring me around 12 and then I was checked again every four hours. DD's heart beat indicated she was in distress then it was decided she actually was ok. After another 9 hours of very painful contractions which by then were every couple of miniutes I still hadn't got past 1.5cms. I was induced then and had an epidural. DD was born at 1am when they checked me again and she was crowning!
So why would I not have been dilating until the induction? And is it more likely to happen again? dd was not small but was ot unusually big and her shoulders also got briefly stuck on the way out which worries me since this baby is likely to be bigger given that I am already more than a week later than I was with her.
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Why do some women not dilate in labour?
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used2bthin · 12/06/2012 23:04
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