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For myself, my cervix is always low, soft and open when I O. When I get AF it is also low and Open, but slightly firm as well.
For someone else when they get AF their cervix may be high and soft.
It is the same for pregnancy. While preg with my DS my cervix was low, firm and closed, and also facing posterior-left, for the entire pregnancy. I had no signs of dilating when I was 41+5 weeks, so I was induced and that took 24 hours for me to even start dilating even though I was having full on contractions every minute.
Every woman's body is different and reacts in different ways so while one person can say that only one way is true, that may not be true for someone else. Most research and facts on the web are only generalisations and averages, not what happens for every single woman. They are guidelines to go by, nothing more.
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I have had a positive pregnancy test yesterday morning, after having a negative blood test 4 days before. I go back in a week for another bHCG test.
Since last night my cervix has been changing from open to closed, and from high to medium, and from soft, to medium-soft, to medium firm to firm and back again to soft every half hour.
As I said in the previous post, everyone is different, so don't stress if you are pregnant and your cervix keeps on changing. If you do get concerned, see your doctor, gyno or ob, and get it checked out. If you are not pregnant, but think you might be/might not be, and it still concerns you, see you doctor, gyno or ob to get checked out too.
It's better to know for sure than not to know at all and be left in limbo.
And remember, always see your doctor, gyno or ob if anything to do with the reproductive sestem/cycle concerns you. And I mean ANYTHING!
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You need to get your facts straight lady.. It FEELS open but is not open because if it were open it could in fact cause a miscarriage or even may cause the uterus to become infected. it may be true that a woman's cervix feels open but it most certainly is not open as this would be a health hazard to both the mother and child as the uterus is an area that does not have white blood cells so it does not fight off infection. It doesnt matter whether youre a nurse or not. Your facts are wrong and anyone who disagrees should look up what would happen if a woman's cervix were open during pregnancy.
Ooooh my goodness. Thank you for saying something. No one is trying to post alarming information by speaking the truth. The cervix should always remain closed. Like this wonderful person said, it may feel open but it's not necessarily so. Cervical incompetence is actually one of the causes of recurrent mid-trimester spontaneous abortions (otherwise known as miscarriage to avoid the misunderstanding about the word abortion) which are characterised by a falling gestation and one of three things is done for that so as to avoid the cervix being too week. At a point after 14 weeks, either a mesylene tape can be used, or a cervical cerclage can be done or trachelorrhaphy can be done. It's done at 14 weeks because by then, other causes of spontaneous abortion significant enough to avoid trying to keep the pregnancy would have been eliminated like chromosomal abnormalities incompatible with life and also because it is at around 14 weeks that the amniotic sac begins to completely fill and distend the muscular wall of the uterus. Hope that helps.
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It will always be closed if you are pregnant...even if you have already had children your cervix will be closed though it may FEEL open it will not be. Seriously if it is open and you are pregnant then you will miscarry.
However, your cervix should rise if pregnant and become softer.
If not pregnant it should be relatively low and firm (though you can be pregnant and it be low and firm). It must be said that if pregnant not every woman's cervix will change positions at the same rate. Some women will experience their cervical changes earlier than others. Some changing before AF and others weeks or months after AF is due. So just because your cervix is low and firm doesn't necessarily mean you are not pregnant. Your cervixs is high, open, soft and wet during ovulation. After ovulation it returns to a low, closed, firm and dry position. It will stay like that until after AF (unless pregnant...though like I said before if pregnant you might not always see a cervical change). [/quote
I don't want to really start an arguement here but I think your wrong your cervix is usually open a very little after your first child it never fully closes ..I know this because number one I'm on my fourth child and number two I use to work labor and delivery so telling someone they will miscarry I think is kind of out of line.
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