A midwife shows on Tik Tok how the cervix is dilated to give birth and her video goes viral

When labor begins, the midwife or gynecologist uses vaginal examination to assess the condition of the cervix or cervix. Remember that it must reach a dilation of 10 centimeters for the baby to be born.

The midwife Sarah Pringle has published on her Tik Tok channel a very illustrative video that has gone viral, in which she explains how the cervix dilates to give birth, and that already has more than 10 million visits.

Also in this previously published video we can see from the total closure to the total dilation of 10 cm of the cervix.

Dilation of the cervix

Dilation of the cervix can begin even days before delivery with the early or latent dilation phase, in which effacement, softening, and dilation of the cervix occur to approximately three centimeters. Then comes the active dilation phase in which the cervix will go from three to ten centimeters in dilation to open the birth canal and allow the baby to exit.

The first three-four centimeters of dilation are the ones that take the longest (it can be days, especially if it is the first delivery), while the second phase is much faster and requires a few hours of labor.

Sarah’s account is littered with tutorials in which she explains practical questions with models used for training midwives and nurses.

In the following video, he shows us how he calculates the centimeters of dilation according to the opening of his fingers, a procedure that must always be carried out with the consent of the woman.

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