So if you were going to try your own internal...

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What would you be hoping to feel exactly?

Sorry, a rather silly question, but after 3 days of stop and start contractions I don't want to go into the hospital to be sent away and told nothing has happened... Was sort of considering trying to feel around a bit myself, but don't really know what I'm feeling for tbh! Am hoping someone might know? This is my 2nd DC and this labour is nothing like the first - DD was fast (less than 11 hours all from first "Braxton Hicks" to her emergence!)

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My NCT teacher told me that if you can't feel your cervix then it hasn't dropped into place ready for the birth yet. I don't think you will be able to tell much more than that though - such as if dilating, effacing or whatever, I think that's quite an expert thing to measure.

You clearly need clean fingers and need to put one leg on the side of the bath or whatever then just have a gentle feel.

If you are not used to what it feels like there then you might struggle a bit tbh. I used to check cervical positioning when ttc so am well acquainted!

I checked mine before i went to hospital.

You would want to try and feel cervix. Before I went into labour could feel it like soft moist "nose" ie sticking out a bit. A few days before that I had tried but couldn't find it at all. A few hours later it had effaced (ie was flat, no longer like a nose) and later I could feel a gap of a couple of cm.

Yes as MumNWLondon suggests. I checked myself before ringing the MW with DD as with DS I had a very long latent phase and didnt want to ring her if things were not happening.

I was quite confused to come across something big and hard...then it slowly dawned on me that would be her head