https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 16 May 2026 15:24:16 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2720117 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:31:37 +0000 bubblegum 2720117@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lioneyes: 2 more weeks and it'll be the day! Thank god!!<br /> @sapphire: sounds good! Either way I wasn't even dilated! I got 14 more days and it'll be over </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2720112 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:06:50 +0000 sapphire 2720112@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Generally your c-section is only done early if you are actually in labor or your water breaks. How far dilated you are is not a very strong predictor of when you will go into labor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2720096 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:25:35 +0000 lioneyes 2720096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bubblegum I understand! you have this date in mind, and it's not a due date- it's 100% THE DATE! hang in there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2720012 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 14:00:59 +0000 bubblegum 2720012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Boogs: that is very true!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2720003 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 13:48:27 +0000 Boogs 2720003@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bubblegum: The good news is that since you already know what to expect, you know what to pack and there isn't too much to take. ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719998 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 13:28:43 +0000 bubblegum 2719998@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lioneyes: got ya! See and that's my concern is that because I am so far along they may just send me to get a c-section if I am dilated. It's exciting but also so nerve wrecking </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719993 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 13:21:22 +0000 lioneyes 2719993@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bubblegum when it was only prodromal, even with 2cm and 90%, my doc said she wanted me to try to hold out for 2 more weeks... if I had been further along, she would have just sent me for the C section that day.</p> <p>Try to drink a lot of water and lay on your left side! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719984 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 13:00:11 +0000 bubblegum 2719984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lioneyes: holy crap! That makes me nervous! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719966 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:30:56 +0000 lioneyes 2719966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a C scheduled for 39 weeks. Went into false labor at 34w 6d. I was 2cm, 90% effaced. This turned into real labor 2 days later- when I got to the hospital I was 6cm. They took me for the C as soon as the doctor was out of her last surgery (so like 1 hr later). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719945 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:08:37 +0000 bubblegum 2719945@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yoursilverlining: Oh okay! Good to know they may just leave me alone and wait until the scheduled c-section.</p> <p>@ShootingStar: Got ya! Yeah it stopped out of no where. I have 6 in a row and then nothing. I just assumed it was my body slightly dilating. </p> <p>@Boogs: Yeah I'm going to have to do that Asap lol</p> <p>@ValentineMommy: Ohhhhh got ya! Well thank you April mama! I'll update for sure after my appt. Maybe from a hospital bed who knows. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719931 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:46:05 +0000 ValentineMommy 2719931@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bubblegum: I suppose!!! My doctors absolutely did not want me having pressure down there because of my retinal detachment (the reason for my csecs), so I'm not sure if the reason for the csec would determine whether or not they would do the csec right away or not. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719911 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:25:42 +0000 Boogs 2719911@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bubblegum: Oh wow, so maybe have your bag packed and in the car just in case? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719910 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:25:01 +0000 ShootingStar 2719910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bubblegum: Nope. I refused regular checks because they were pointless. And since it was my 2nd I knew I wasn't in real labor. I kept thinking real labor was going to happen, but every time I started thinking "ok if this starts to pick up, it's it" it would just fizzle out. So I never ended up going to the hospital thinking I was in labor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719909 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:24:23 +0000 yoursilverlining 2719909@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had strong prodromal labor for several weeks and was 3 CM dilated and almost fully effaced from late 37 weeks on (I was almost 4 cm the day of my section). I had a scheduled c-section at 40+2 and my OB never said anything about the dilation being an issue at all. She also did do internal checks on a normal schedule. This was my first delivery and it was an elective section, which may have impacted things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719906 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:23:04 +0000 bubblegum 2719906@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ShootingStar: so you were never checked to see if you were dilated? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719889 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:10:29 +0000 ShootingStar 2719889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For my 2nd I had a scheduled c-section. They told me that essentially I should come to the hospital if I think I'm in active labor (following 5-5-5 rule). They would check me and if they determined I was in fact in labor they would treat it as a semi-emergent c-section and get me in an OR.</p> <p>I had tons and tons of prodromal labor, but it always fizzled out after a few hours. I may have been dilated, but I have no idea. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719884 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:03:58 +0000 bubblegum 2719884@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Boogs: That's pretty awesome! I have to have a c-section no matter what because of my pelvis size </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719883 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:03:32 +0000 bubblegum 2719883@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ValentineMommy: OMG! are you serious!? That's a little scary now. Yeah he said I'm totally allowed to skip them because it's a scheduled c-section but if I have contractions he said he has to know because then he wants to check. SOOOOOO does that mean if I go in and am slightly dilated they may just do the c-section today?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719881 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:02:02 +0000 bubblegum 2719881@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: I got an internal done at 36 weeks but last week I skipped it but I think I'll just ask to have it done today if it means getting a c-section earlier. That's a little scary though lol especially since I'm almost 38 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719879 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 10:59:44 +0000 Boogs 2719879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was going for a vbac, so it was a good thing in my case. I ended up going into labor because my rcs and was able to successfully have a vbac, so the c/s was cancelled. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719874 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 10:56:56 +0000 ValentineMommy 2719874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With DS2, I had prodromal (non-productive contractions) labor for 2 weeks. Eventually, I went to the hospital when I couldn't take it anymore. They were going to send me home, because of 0 dilation, but at the last check, I had apparently dilated. Even though it was only 1-2 centimeters, they ended up just doing the csection right then. I was 38w6d.</p> <p>ETA: My OB doesn't do internals when you have a scheduled c-section. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719870 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 10:53:17 +0000 gingerbebe 2719870@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My doctor didn't want to do internal checks unnecessarily bc she didn't want to bring on labor, but I'm faiiiiirly sure with DS2 I was pretty dang dilated. Basically she told me if my water breaks or if I have regular contractions for like an hour I'm an immediate emergency C-section. She said after 36 weeks, if in doubt, take him out. Now they could bump you for another patient (happened to my friend - she waited through 2 other sections) if you're not in a serious situation - but basically if anything resembling progression happened my doctor told me to come into the hospital. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dilate-but-have-to-have-a-c-section#post-2719835 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:50:17 +0000 bubblegum 2719835@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So I will be 38 weeks tomorrow but yesterday I had 6 strong contractions back to back. </p> <p>My question, if you have a scheduled c-section but get an internal done and you are dilated ( of course 3 or more) what happens??</p> <p>Do they take you in and do the c-section? Do they wait until you're further dilated? What happens? </p>