If you had an elective CS first time, does all the effacing and engaging and stuff happen quicker with the second pregnancy?

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Or does that only happen if you've already gone through labour?

Just an idle pondering.

Given most electives take place a week or so before baby is due, how would you know how fast you would have effaced/baby engaged?

I don't know. I just thought that in first pregnancies you engage slowly over a few weeks, and all the softening of the cervix etc happens quicker second time around. I just wondered whether these processes are quicker in the second pregnancy even if the body had never undergone labour first time around.

Hiya,

I don't think the effacing would happen more quickly if you've never been in labour before. Not sure about engaging but I wouldn't have thought that would make a difference to the speed or ease of labour since many second pregnancies don't engage until labour starts.