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ORIGINAL POST:
Stage 1: LABOR
Phase 1: Latent or Early Labor
Phase 2: Active Labor(when the servix is dialated to 7 centimeters
Phase 3: Transitional Labor (100% efaced, dialation of cervix to 10 centimeters)
Stage 2: BABY IS DELIVERED
Stage 3: Placenta is delivered
Prelabor
Prelabor can begin as much as a full month, or as little as an hour before real labor. Prelabor is the beggining of your cervix dialating and becoming efaced.
Prelabor Symptoms Engagement and Lightening
This is when the head of the baby goes down into the pelvis area.
Loss of weight or slowing down of weight gain.
Increasing pressure in the pelvis
Crampyness
Loss of Mucous Plug
Increase in Braxton Hicks Contractions
Diarrhea
The Bloody Show
False Labor
It may be difficult to determine if you are in real labor, you probably are not in real labor if: Your contractions are not regular
Your contractions are not becoming more and more intense
The baby's movement increases with each contraction
Contractions slow down if you change your position
You have a brownish show instead of a bloddy show
Real Labor
You are probably in labor if the following symptoms are occuring: Contractions increase rather than decrease and are not relieved by a change in activity or position
Your contractions come more often and are more painful
Your contractions are more regular
The pink or bloddy show occurs
Your water breaks
Intense pain in the lower abdomin or back
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