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I read what M25 and Jen were saying it how do you do that? Im not going to do it now because Im still to early in the pregnancy but it would be something that I would like to try closer to my due date. What do you feel for? How do you know its your cervix? etc etc pls give detail so I can save this :) ↓
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| Name: LindsayK | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 7:50 PM |
| I haven't tried it, but i've heard that you squat down, make sure your hands are really clean, then insert your fingers inside. ↑ |
| Name: nicole76108 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 8:21 PM |
| Ya but what do you feel for? I dont know what it is supposed to feel like ↑ |
| Name: ..RoSey.. | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 8:28 PM |
| its like a hard ball with a hole in the middle lol. RIGHTTTTTTT at the back... personally i couldnt reach mine.. but then again i couldnt of been doing it right =P ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 8:46 PM |
ok i tried to find the sight i used for this but couldn't but this is what i remember.....a cervix thats not effaced will feel like the tip of your nose kinda knobby.....50%effaced feels like puckered lips for a kiss ya know......more effaced feels like chicken skin.
1cm 1 finger
2cm 2 fingers w/ room to wiggle
3cm the rim of a dinner spoon
5 cm a mason jar lid...perfect circle and consistancy of a rubber band ↑ |
| Name: 04nidak | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 9:01 PM |
| I am curious to check mine now, when my doctor checked me a few weeks ago she said my cervix was back and hard, now I'm curious if it's changed, but am kind of scared to check it myself, lol. ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 9:26 PM |
How to Check Your Own Cervix
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If
you are interested, here is a short article on checking your own cervix by midwife Gloria Lemay:
How to Check Your Own Cervix- "it's not rocket science"
"we think it's a good and empowering thing for a woman to check her own cervix for dilation. This is not rocket science, and you hardly need a medical degree or years of training to do it. Your vagina is a lot like your nose- other people may do harm if they put fingers or instruments up there but you have a greater sensitivity and will not do yourself any harm.
"The best way to do it when hugely pregnant is to sit on the toilet with one foot on the floor and one up on the seat of the toilet. Put two fingers in and go back towards your bum. The cervix in a pregnant woman feels like your lips puckered up into a kiss. On a non-pregnant woman it feels like the end of your nose. When it is dilating, one finger slips into the middle of the cervix easily (just like you could slide your finger into your mouth easily if you are puckered up for a kiss). As the dilation progresses the inside of that hole becomes more like a taught elastic band and by 5 cms dilated (5 fingerwidths) it is a perfect rubbery circle like one of those Mason jar rings that you use for canning, and about that thick.
"What's in the centre of that opening space is the membranes (bag of waters) that are covering the baby's head and feel like a latex balloon filled with water. If you push on them a bit you'll feel the baby's head like a hard ball (as in baseball). If the waters have released you'll feel the babe's head directly.
"It is time for women to take back ownership of their bodies."
-Gloria Lemay, Vancouver, BC [www.glorialemay.com ↑ |
| Name: DRB | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 9:27 PM |
you want to be careful when doing it....remember your not a doctor...
oh and i am completly guilty of checking mine during my pregnancy with gabs...but i am going to try and refrain...it just made me think i was a know it all lol..... ↑ |
| Name: nicole76108 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:02 PM |
| Well here is the truth curiousity hit me and I admit it I tried. lol But the trouble is, is I dont feel anything. Or atleast I dont think so. I moved my finger around and everything is really tight in there so its hard to determine what is what. But the only thing that I could fill that is "different then just a wall of tissue" is this squishy thing towards the back (towards the butt) It doesnt feel like a nose or lips though. But when i pushed on it I could feel something move with my pushes lol What am I pushing and pls dont tell me it was poop lol :) ↑ |
| Name: DRB | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:04 PM |
LMAO..i dont know..
it was poop...j/k
i dunno...
i didnt feel it...or do i want to..lol ↑ |
| Name: ..RoSey.. | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:04 PM |
| Lmfao !!! uhhh thats either your g spot or cervix rofl. ↑ |
| Name: nicole76108 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:07 PM |
| Not the g spot I know where that is lol I had never felt it before so I was curious. I thought ya'll might get a kick out of the poop comment but what is it. hmmmmm curiousity strikes again. ↑ |
| Name: nicole76108 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:08 PM |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:09 PM |
| LMAO.......your prob. stilll wayyy to early to feel yours...it's high up and prob. posterior ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:10 PM |
| Name: zoey9810 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:10 PM |
| lol i want to go check hahah but im not preggo, i checked with tyler but i couldnt figure out what was what lol ↑ |
| Name: zoey9810 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:11 PM |
| and i think i was able to feel his head but im not sure, ill check for the next one, so in like 2 years lol ↑ |
| Name: nicole76108 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:13 PM |
| oh ok that is probably true, but what the heck is that thing. Strange I'll ask my doctor the next time I got. Its gonna be funny though, "Um excuse me ma'am would you pls do me a favor could you tell me what this is" lol But it will kill me if I dont ask. lol Oh im so blonde sometimes. ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:14 PM |
| HAHAHAHAAAAA.....he'll say it was poop!!!! ↑ |
| Name: nicole76108 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:15 PM |
| I probably am still to early which is probably a good thing that I could find it cause Im such the curious person that I would poke and poke to know for sure then probably end up breaking my water or something. ↑ |
| Name: nicole76108 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:15 PM |
| lol Jen is gonna be so upset she missed my poop talk. lol ↑ |
| Name: jen85 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:16 PM |
| wow, you could break your own water. hmmmmmmm ↑ |
| Name: jen85 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:17 PM |
| WHAT DID I MISS? I'M HERE!!!!!!!! ↑ |
| Name: mother2five | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:18 PM |
JEN......your supposed to be having this baby!!!!!!
Lol j/k it'll come when it's ready....or you'll just have to evict it ↑ |
| Name: jen85 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:18 PM |
| omg.........you are retarded sometimes!!!!!!!!1 LOL LOL ↑ |
| Name: jen85 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:18 PM |
| THAT COMMENT WAS FOR NICOLE. ↑ |
| Name: jen85 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:19 PM |
| WELL AS I told my mom, this tree is ready to drop it's fruit! ↑ |
| Name: nicole76108 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:21 PM |
| I feel the love :) Ya know it wouldnt be nearly as entertaining without me. ↑ |
| Name: jen85 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:23 PM |
| Name: jen85 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:24 PM |
| anyway, I went to the potty, and when I opened the lid there was this slimy thing in there mixed bith dark brown stuff. FDo you think that the toilet rejected my plug, or is it dirt???? EWWWWWWWWWW ↑ |
| Name: jen85 | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:25 PM |
| It couldn't have been dirt, because the cleaning lady was here last thursday. And the bathrooms did get cleaned. ↑ |
| Name: DRB | Date: Mar 27th, 2008 10:26 PM |
| the toliet is rejecting your plug!! LMAO ↑ |
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