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How Long Women Are Dilated Before Labor
Pregnancy

How Long Were You Dilated Before You Delivered?

Pack the bag — it's time to have baby .
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Pack the bag — it's time to have baby . . . or not. When a first-time mom-to-be hears she's dilated, she may want to head straight to the hospital, but it can be days or even weeks before the cervix is ready for a wee one to pass through. An expectant mother has to be 100 percent effaced and dilated 10 centimeters for baby to debut (via vaginal delivery). Were you dilated for a while?

What's the Deal With the Diaphragm?
Love and Sex

What's the Deal With the Diaphragm?

I've been talking a lot about many forms of birth control including hormonal ones like the
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I've been talking a lot about many forms of birth control including hormonal ones like the Pill, the Patch, and Depo-Provera, and about barrier methods like the male and female condom. A diaphragm is another form of barrier method, which prevents sperm from getting to your precious eggs.

It is a shallow, bowl-shaped piece of rubber with a flexible rim that fits over your vagina and covers the cervix so sperm can't reach your uterus. Your vaginal muscles keep it in place.

Advantages:

  • You need to get fitted for one by your gynecologist, but once you have it, and if you take care of it properly, it should last 1-2 years.
  • It usually can't be felt during sex by either partner.
  • You can keep it inside you for up to 24 hours.
  • It doesn't change your menstrual cycle.
  • It doesn't affect future fertility.

    • There are unfortunately many disadvantages so click here to read more