dilation or effacement better predictors?

JSanFran

I realize that there isn't any golden way to predict when labor will come (or at least that's what I'm assuming ))    My SIL got all pumped that I was about 50% effaced...only  finger tip dilated...but head is really low. 

Just wondering if you gals knew if one was a better predictor than the other.  Then again my doc told me she had a patient walk around for weeks 4cm dilated, thinking she would go into labor any day! I would have died!

 

Amaya84

Been siting on 2.5cm, -2, 70% effaced for weeks.....AND I have been having contractions, and walking, and having sex and.....

MustanGTbaby13

Neither really are. Your baby will come when he or she is ready

JSanFran

haha...thanks for the downer! lol  I figured I can't get my spirits up too much...

 

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Ashley40705

MustanGTbaby13:

Neither really are. Your baby will come when he or she is ready

This.

nursebecca79

My OB told me today that they don't really know EXACTLY what causes labor to begin. The reining theory is that there is a chemical released by baby's pituitary gland when baby is ready that begins the process...I was a bit sad to hear that as I'm 4cm dilated and 50% effaced. I could go tonight or next week or the week after...

ShandaB

My understanding from my classes was that there is a chemical released that begins labor.  She didn't say anything about if dilation or effacement was a predictor.  I think the bottom line is that just because one person walked around 4cm dilated and 90% effaced doesn't mean you will and just because another person went into labor at only 2cm dilated and 40% effaced doesn't mean you will either.  Everyone's body is different and even the same person can have a different experience with each pregnancy.