In most pregnancies, at about 37 weeks, your doctor or midwife will begin checking your cervix for effacement, dilation and station. She will then report back to you the results. For first time moms this can be confusing. If you don’t know what effacement, dilation and station are, then when your provider reports that you [...]
Tags: birth, cervix, dilation, effacement, labor, Pregnancy, thick, thin
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Cutting your baby’s fingernails can be a nerve-wracking, daunting task. It often seems that as soon as you cut them they need cutting again and normally you have to fight with a wiggling baby in order to get that little bitty nail. New parents often find themselves dumb founded when it comes to knowing HOW [...]
Tags: accidents, bite, clippers, cut, fingernails, help, nail file, nails, scissors, short, thin
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