What does 3cm dilated and 25% effaced mean?

Question

The doctor gave a crappy explanation, and I would love a better explanation of what 3cm dilated and 25% effaced means. Can anyone please help me?

I am 39 weeks pregnant

This is my second pregnancy.

Answer 1

Your cervix has to open to 10cm and you are open 3 cam right now.
You also have to thin out (think of your cervix like a donut, you have to open and squish down). You are 25% thinned out, so you have 75% to go.

Sounds like a baby is in your near future-- like a few days at most! Best to you!!

Answer 2

That means that I am gonna bet this is your first, because you can be 3 cm and 25% for the whole last month the first time around. Sometimes it is only going to be the last week or last day, but it means this. Your cervix has opened 3 of the 10cm or so it is going to need to for the baby's head to pass through. The effacement is this. Your cervix is usually very thick. Toward the end of pregnancy and especially with the onset of labor the cervix becomes thin or effaced. So when you are 25% effaced you are 1/4 of the way towards being 100% thin. This is the easy part of the cervix opening. You probably haven't felt it much, or known what it was you were feeling. The contractions you will have during labor will take it the rest of the way to 10 cm and 100% effaced.

Good Luck Sweetie

Answer 3

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What does 3cm dilated and 25% effaced mean?
The doctor gave a crappy explanation, and I would love a better explanation of what 3cm dilated and 25% effaced means. Can anyone please help me?

I am 39 weeks pregnant

Answer 4

I have given birth to four children. You have to dialate to 10 cm or about 4 inches before you will be ready to push your baby out. Your process has begun. The cervix, the opening to your uterus is opening up (dilation) and flattening and thinning out(effacement) this process can take a while. You could stay where you are for another two weeks. Start doing some walking around, drink lots of water, eat healthy foods, and get plenty of rest. You are on your way to seeing your brand new baby. Good luck, Congratulations and God Bless you all.

Answer 5

25 Effaced

Answer 6

at 25% effaced your cervix is still quite thick, and 3 cm is about the size of you index and middle finger together.

If this is not your first pregnancy, the cervix does not always close and usually stay at 1cm .

So you have made some progress but you still have a bit more to go.

We always say getting to 5cm and 100% effaced is always the hardest and then things start to go faster from there.

Answer 7

Dilation is the opening of the cervix to ten centimeters. Effacement is the thinning of the cervix to 100%. In order for your baby to be delivered, the cervical dilation must reach 10, and thin out 100%. The cervix starts out thick at 0% effaced, and
closed- 0 centimeters dilated

Answer 8

It means you're a 3rd way to full dilation, and you're a fourth to being fully effaced. You dilate to 10cm's, and 100% effaced. Before effacement, your cervix is like the top of a wine bottle, at full effacement your cervix is like the top of a mayonnaise jar. Congratulations on your new bundle of joy. Good luck !

Answer 9

You have to be 10 cm to push out the baby you are only 3 cm and 25% effaced means that 25% of your lining of your cervix has thinned.

Answer 10

Yep- the above poster is right- You have to be dilated 10 cm to be completely ready for birth. Effacement is how thin the cervix is, and the more quickly that starts to happen, the faster the cervix dilates. Basically, you're going to drop any day. Congrats!

Answer 11

Your cervix is opened by 3cm has to be 10cm before you can start pushing and 25% effaced means the thinness of your cervix.