Due April 2009: Episode 17 - We're off of work and ready to push, time for DH's to attend to that bush!!

[BabyBolat]

Inspired by our Smutty x

I think it's a lovely idea bronze...the cervix club...

www.contractionmaster.com

must add I'm not sat here trying

Oh, and can it ever disappear further up again if you've found it easily?

I would think if baby engages/disengages it would make a difference. I can feel this one has engaged but cos my pelvis is looser it pops in and out with ease.

just to reiterate..i am not a health professional...just a very curious proddy sort of person

It tends to gradually come forward and dilates over the last few weeks of pregnancy, but actually this means very little in terms of readiness as you can walk around 2-3cm for ages in latent labout (2 weeks for me last time!) or go from a very closed cervix to fast contractions and dilation in a few hours. It's not good people! Just making me more impatient

i'm leaving mine well alone for now...... though give me a few weeks

yep forgot to say my LO is engaged and I can feel it just above cervix.

Hmmmmmmm, my cervix makes me very nervous. I'm hoping that I can walk around for at least a few more weeks with an easily accessible cervix. It has become much more accessible over the last couple of days.

I admire your willpower Nutty. I am rubbish

This is sooo funny. DH is sat no more than a metre away from me with no idea what we are discusssing [girlish giggle]

lol dh saw lo on the scan yesterday and it was head down, lil hands rubbing its eyes apparantly and very active. He's very impatient now, was telling me that he just wants her to come out and play now

am 5/5 what does that mean??

either totally engaged or not at all as I understand it! No consistency amongst healthcare people grrrr gives fractions a bad name...

Maths - not willpower really just more like laziness and an inability to reach

not at all I think

DH is fascinated and amused by the contraction master. He laughed at it flashing red when he had a pretend contraction. So much for trying to use it to show him the pattern, or rather lack of pattern in BH.

Not at all engaged.

5/5!!! That means he is completely engaged. If you sit up too fast he will fly out and hit the wall on the opposite side of the room. Problem solved.

oh, ok will ask my MW next week probably not at all in my case lol though pelvis majorly sore so who knows

Ah, well Swali is a bit more medical than me, she has mopped up all those old ladies, so I would probably listen to her.

I hope that it means not at all engaged anyway, because that's what the obstetrician wrote on my notes when I was 26 weeks pg.

No its not at all

just double checked. The first numbe ris the amount that can be felt abdominally so if its 4/5ths then you can feel 4/5 above the pelvis and only 1/5 is in the pelvis.

ahhh ok not engaged then

So no instant birth for Nutty them. Pants.

I am 4/5 engaged apparently.