Failure to dilate

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Has anyone experienced labour and failure to dilate naturally?

or experience with babies never engaging leading to no dilating? Even after days of intense labour?

Yes - My child is now 21 - so any info I have will no doubt be out of date.

I never reached full dilation. Was in labour for 4 days in total but not full on contractions for all of that time. Most frustrating 4 days of my life because the contractions kept coming and going.

Eventually the babies heart beat started slowing down (not majorly but enough to worry the docs) and I ended up with a C-section delivery - all was well - and as I say shes now 21 with no issues.

I later found out I had an inverted cervix but no ones been able to confirm for definite if thats anything to do with not dilating properly. (But i suspect that's the explanation)

Yes, with both dc. I had bandles rings so went through all the pain but only dilated to 4 cm. It was only picked up when I had my second. Two emergency c sections, two healthy dc, now 24 and 21.