When did you start dilating with your first?

[hski2349]

I will be 38 weeks on Wednesday. I went to my weekly doctor appointment today, and I still have not started dilating. A big fat nothing. Not even 1 cm. This is my first, and the doctor said it is not out of the norm for first time moms. Help me feel better. When did you start dilating with your first, and when did you have your first?

[Deleted]

That's why I never got checked. I have no idea. I delivered spontaneously on my due date.

Average FTM is 10 days over 40 weeks for spontaneous labour, though. So I would prepare mentally for that and be pleasantly surprised if it happens sooner.

[vanillacourage]

Not-quite 38w with your first is early to start stressing about not dilating.

[curbsideprophet]

Ditto token, i have no idea. I was not checked until I was in active labor and at the hospital. DD was born at 38w 4d. She came on her own, no induction.

[zeewifeandmama]

No idea...I never got checked. I was induced at 39w3d. I will say though, with my second I was not dilated at all and locked up like fort knox at my 38w appt...I delivered spontaneously a week later.

I agree its a bit early to be stressing....let that little one bake just a tad longer

[Becca]

I was checked at 37 weeks and was 5 cm

[Becca]

Posted too soon. I delivered DD 2.5 hours after being checked. The check brought on my first contraction and they just kept coming

(I was checked a week earlier and was 1cm)

[h]

I was 1 cm the first time I was checked (37 weeks, I think). I was 2 cm at 39 weeks. I delivered at 39w5d after spontaneous labor.

[fortmyersbride]

I think 1cm at 37 wks, 3cm at 38 wks. DS was born at exactly 39 wks.

[slug*bug]

I was barely a fingertip at (wait for it!) 41 w 2 d. Fun times.

Noone was more shocked than I was when I went into labor spontaneously a little more than 12 hours later, dilated relatively quickly and was holding a baby in my arms less than a day after being locked up tight.

[jinnifah]

I believe it was at my 40wk Appt that I first got checked and I was 2cm. Went into labour on my own at 41wk1d

[jennlin]

2cm at 37wks. No change at 38wks, had membranes swept. went into labor 38w6d.

[Deleted]

I was barely a 1 at 41 weeks. I think I started at about 37 or 38.

[jenjen]

I was a 1 at 36 and 37 w. I moved up to 1.5cm at 38w and was 70% effaced on a Thursday. Saturday at 1am my water broke. I have no idea what I was when admitted to the hospital.

[brit1017]

When they induced me at 37.5 weeks for pre-e. I was 0cm, 0% effaced, and head not engaged when the induction started. DS was born (vaginally) 20 hours later.

[6fsn]

I was a 2 at 41 wks. A few days later they gave cervadil and 2 days of pit. I never got past 5.

[lala]

W/ DD1 when I was induced for BP reasons at 40w5d I was 0cm, 0%, etc. Nothing.
W/ DD2, I have no idea. I went into labor spontaneously at 39w3d and the first time I was checked (2 hours later) I was 5cm. No clue what it was like before that.

I'm a big fan of not getting checked until actual labor. There's really no point, it doesn't indicate when labor will start and it seems to only serve as a source of stress.

[Redpoppy]

I was induced just before 38 weeks and was not dilated at all. The midwife used a foley catheter to manually dilate me after 2 days of induction meds and I had da on the 4th day. It may have gone faster but they turned meds off at night to sleep.

[dnabaker]

Jul 16, 2012 22:11:50 GMT -5 @tokenhoser said:

That's why I never got checked. I have no idea. I delivered spontaneously on my due date.

+1, same thing with each of 2 kids

[water*drop]

I was not dilated or effaced when my water broke spontaneously at 40w2d. I delivered DD (vaginally, with cytotec and pitocin) 18 hours later.

[birdmom]

I was 1 cm from about 34 weeks. My water broke and I had DS at 39 weeks.

[froggy76]

I never dilated until I went into labor. I delivered DD a day before her due date.

[megs193]

With my first DS I was 1 cm and 90% effaced at 36 weeks. My OB told me at every appointment that she didnt expect me to be pregnant for much longer. I was induced at 41 weeks.

With my second DS I was 0% effaced and fingertip at 38 weeks. My water broke at 39 weeks and by the time I got to the hospital an hour later I was 3 cm and 70% effaced. In other words, I don't think it matters at all.

[Ashley&Scott]

fingertip/1cm (depending on the Dr.) from 37 weeks until I delivered at 39w5d. I wouldn't worry yet.

[badtzmaru22]

I think I was checked at 38w and was 1.5ish and 50% effaced. At my 40 check I was 2cm and 80% iirc. I had a membrane sweep then. I went into labor at 5pm at 40w3d and baby was born 12 hours later. It sucked going past my due date, but I was mentally preparing to go over. Labor and delivery went so well, and I'm glad I didn't have to be induced. GL!!

[Deleted]

I never did until I was induced at 40w3d.

and even then, I only went to 1 cm.

Hopefully you won't be like me!

[loskadoodle]

At 38-4, I was a .5 cm. at 39-4 I was 1cm and my water broke at 39-6. Doesn't really mean much!

[Deleted]

I was 1cm at 36wks, my water broke on its own at 37wks2d.

[biscoffcookies]

I was 1 cm at 36 weeks, 3cm at 37 and 38 weeks, and 5 cm at 39 weeks. I didn't go into labor until 40w3d. I was 7cm when I got to the hospital.

[nabum]

I had my first check at 35w3d. I was 1-2cm, 60% effaced and baby was at 0 station.

I gave birth at 36w3d.