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Narrator: In the weeks before birth, your body slows down production of the hormone, progesterone, while increasing production of other hormones, including prostaglandins, which soften the cervix, and oxytocin, which triggers the uterine muscles to contract.
True labor contractions are rhythmic and painful and grow consistently stronger. As the long vertical muscle bands of the uterus tighten, they pull the cervix open. The strong muscles at the top of the uterus push down and release, guiding your baby toward the cervix.
The mucus plug, a collection of thickened cervical mucus that sealed your cervix shut for nine months, may be expelled days before or in the midst of labor.
When the amniotic sac ruptures, your water has broken, it can feel like a trickle or a gush fluid.
Your cervix will begin opening and thinning known as dilation and effacement. Once you reach about four centimeters, your body will move into active labor. In active labor, contractions becomes stronger and closer together.
At eight centimeters, you enter what many consider the most painful part of labor, transition.
By 10 centimeters, you're fully dilated and may feel the urge to push, this is your signal that the second stage of labor has begun. Your baby will move down with each contraction.
The three separate soft bones of their head will temporarily overlap, so they can pass through the snug birth canal. Your baby's scalp will come into view, when the widest part of the head is visible, your baby is crowning. With several more pushes, your baby's face, shoulders, and body will emerge. In the third and final stage of labor, your placenta detaches and is expelled.
With your baby's first breath, the incredible journey of birth is complete.
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March of Dimes. 2014. Stages of labor. http://www.marchofdimes.org/pregnancy/stages-of-labor.aspx [Accessed October 2016]
NIH. 2012. What are the stages of labor? National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health. https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/labor-delivery/topicinfo/Pages/stages.aspx [Accessed October 2016]
OWH. 2010. Labor and birth. U.S. Office on Women’s Health. http://www.womenshealth.gov/pregnancy/childbirth-beyond/labor-birth.html [Accessed October 2016]
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