dilating.

[angel_babie92]

Help me please lol. Ive been dilated at 1 since friday and i wont dilate any more. Ill be 38 weeks in 3 days. The baby is full term and healthy. What can i do to help me dilate. Besides sex. He does not want to have sex like we normally do cause i still have 2 weeks to go and hes not ready but i am! I have so much pressure and lower cramps and my bones feel like there ripping apart. Im in so much pain but the drs wont do anything cause im not 39 weeks which they say is concerned full term.

[KriCro77]

Tell your husband that sex will only help it along if its going to happen anyway. It shouldn't start preterm labor. From what I've read... So tell him to get busy lol

[al_rachelle]

I was stuck at 1 for the longest time too! Haha I even went in to be induced and my body did not want to dialate! It was crazy. After I got released from induction with no baby I got an excercise ball used that, took hot baths, walked like crazy, used an excercise bike and ate spicy foods. And finally dialated a little more. Enough to set a new induction date and she's here now!:)

[KriCro77]

Isn't there something you can do with nipples? lol! I read that was the only proven method to encourage labor. I think by pinching them (ouch). And sex because the semen can help thin the cervix. Hang in there and congratulations!