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Ask a Relationship Expert Jill Wodnick is a dynamic communicator using her words to inspire and empower. Jill has years practicing as a certified birth doula, holistic childbirth educator and creator of women’s rites and rituals for pregnancy and birth. She has trained women’s health professionals at Expectant Head Start, the Black Infant Mortality Resource Reduction Center as well as hundreds of expectant parents! read more
trina910 12/31/2008
1:34 pm
dilated

I am 36 weeks and i went to the doctor yesterday and found out that i am 1 cm dilated i have 3 weeks left and i wanted to know how early or late could my baby come now?

Jill Wodnick 1/1/2009
3:17 pm
Re: dilated

Great question. It is natural and normal to have small cervical changes at the last part of pregnancy.  For example, the cervic may efface (ripen), move from postier to antier, and have a small amount of dilation--1 to 3 cm.  All of this is very normal, healthy but does NOT predict an earlier labor or a due date.  What it does is reinforce your innate body wisdom, remind you that your baby and body are working in symettry and enhance your connection.  Estimated due dates are challenging as labor and birth is really a sp.... Read More signin

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