Whatever your cervix is doing before you're in labor has no bearing on how long labor will be or when labor will begin.

by Brittany Sharpe McCollum

09/12/2023

PSA for all those glowing #pregnant peeps out there! 🤰🏿🤰🏼🫄🏼🤰🏻🫄🏿🫃🏻🫄🏻🫃🏾

It can be so exciting to find out you’re a few centimeters dilated at the end of #pregnancy …the 🔑, though, is to not feel discouraged if #labor doesn’t start soon. 🥰

Research tells us that cervical change can be a possible indicator that #laborinduction may be more likely to wind up in a #vaginalbirth but whatever the cervix is doing during the #endofpregnancy does not actually indicate when #laboring will begin OR how long the #birthprocess will be. 💜

Bottom line:
➡️ You don’t want a #cervicalexam at the end of pregnancy? That’s absolutely your decision to make.
➡️ Planning an #inductionoflabor and want to see if your cervix has started to change? Go for the exam if you want to!
➡️ Having any other feelings about consenting to an exam? Hopefully this info is helpful!