While only your doctor can confirm cervical dilation, you can do a self-check to get an idea of what's going on. This guide ...

A Bishop score is a number your doctor or midwife uses to evaluate whether your cervix is ready for an induction, depending on how open, soft, and thin it is – its dilation and effacement.

The Friedman curve, the gold standard for rates of cervical dilation and fetal descent during active labor, was developed almost 50 years ago. To define a modern curve for normal labor ...