It’s kind of the same idea with your cervix during labor. It no longer sticks out like a neck because it is now stretched thin. It is becoming part of the rest of the balloon. As you fill it with air the neck of the balloon connected to the opening is getting shorter, and thinner and disappearing. One way to get a visual is to picture what happens when you are blowing up a balloon. You might hear phrases like “ripens,” or “cervical thinning” in reference to effacement. The baby engages in the pelvis and gradually drops closer to the cervix. The cervix gradually softens, shortens and becomes thinner until it is no longer protruding. So what is effacement? Effacement is the thinning of the cervix in preparation for birth. The cervix is the entrance to the womb, like a short hallway that leads you to main ballroom which is the uterus! One of the physical changes that take place during labor is the effacement of your cervix. (There may be other causes for this feeling at various stages of pregnancy, such as baby’s position or movement, but during labor it can be a result of effacement. Talk to your care provider if you are ever concerned.) Her midwife informed her that this feeling was most likely her cervix moving out of the way, in other words, effacement. ![]() Vividly explained as lightning crotch! Whether she knew others had also used this exact phrase to describe this sensation or not, I do not know, but it sure makes the point. ![]() ![]() Recently, a laboring mother had us, her birth team, laughing and giggling with the words she used to describe the sensations she was having.Ī particularly funny phrase she kept using was “Lightning Crotch.” This is a stinging, burning, pins and needles type of feeling right in the crotch, not during a contraction but in between or just after. It was short in duration like a pinch and not as painful or as long as a contraction.
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