Will a small cervix affect normal delivery?

Pregnant women should check their body weight and body temperature every day during pregnancy, and go to the hospital for a physical examination every week, mainly to determine whether the baby in the belly is healthy. Generally, in the middle and late stages of pregnancy, it is time to give birth. Many people hope to maintain their figure and not leave scars on their bodies, so they will choose natural childbirth. However, during the process of natural childbirth, you also need to pay attention to several parts, namely the pelvic fetal position and the cervical opening. Some people are born with a small cervical opening due to development, and the baby in the belly is relatively large because of full-term birth. Some may still be fat, so a small cervical opening makes it impossible to give birth normally and smoothly, and it may even lead to difficult delivery. In order to prevent this phenomenon, a caesarean section must be performed. In addition, people with a small cervix should pay attention to controlling their weight and arrange their diet according to the normal amount of food intake to prevent dystocia.

If these three aspects are grasped well, it will play a vital role in normal delivery.

First of all, it is about controlling weight during pregnancy. In the past, pregnant mothers were worried about whether the nutrition during pregnancy was sufficient and whether all the baby’s needs could be met. But now this is a pointless worry. Most babies are not malnourished, but too well-nourished.

Pregnant mothers are protected by their families from the beginning of their pregnancy. They take all kinds of nutritional supplements and do not exercise enough. It is easy for them to gain too much weight, causing the baby in the belly to be too large. In the end, they have to give birth by caesarean section. So I have monitored my weight very early, and the goal is to control the weight gain within 12-15 kg throughout the pregnancy. The setting of this growth indicator is also based on the opinions of experts and personal physical conditions.

Expert opinion : The ideal pregnancy weight is to gain 2 kg within 3 months of early pregnancy, 5 kg each within 3 to 6 months of mid-pregnancy or 7 to 9 months of late pregnancy, for a total of about 12 kg. If you gain more than 20 kilograms during pregnancy, there is a risk that your baby will grow too large.

Weight management in the early stages of pregnancy is relatively easy. Those who have early pregnancy reactions will lose a few pounds during this period, and those who don't have any reactions won't gain much weight either. The key is management and control in the middle and late stages. During the stable period after the early pregnancy reactions end, the expectant mother finally regains her appetite and finds everything delicious. If the diet is not reasonable or bad eating habits are formed during this period, the nutritional intake will be unbalanced, and you may gain excess weight without realizing it.

Mothers in the late stages of pregnancy usually start to prepare for delivery, or they don’t have much work or activity. The rhythm of their lives changes, and they are prone to weight gain, which is considered a period of rapid growth. In my own experience, my weight gained very quickly during this last period of time. I once gained more than 2 kilograms in a week. Fortunately, I was always weighed during every prenatal check-up at the hospital.

The growth of this data is very important for weight management during pregnancy. In the later stages of pregnancy, the average weight gain is 300 grams per week, and no more than 500 grams. Usually around 34 weeks, hospitals require senior doctors to perform pelvic measurements on pregnant women. This measurement, combined with the doctor's touch of the shape and size of the fetus in the abdomen, and the estimation of the fetal weight, can determine whether the pregnant woman can have a smooth natural delivery. If the doctor believes that the baby's weight will exceed 4 kilograms (medically known as macrosomia), the mother's rate of dystocia will increase significantly, and it is generally recommended that the mother give birth by caesarean section.

Secondly, it is appropriate exercise such as gymnastics for pregnant women. Gymnastics during pregnancy is not only beneficial for controlling weight during pregnancy, but also conducive to smooth delivery. This is because:

Gymnastics exercises can increase the tension and elasticity of the abdominal muscles, back muscles and pelvic floor muscles, make the joints and ligaments loose and soft, help relax the muscles during delivery, reduce the resistance of the birth canal, and allow the fetus to pass through the birth canal faster. According to relevant research results, those who insist on doing prenatal gymnastics have a significantly higher rate of normal vaginal delivery than those who do not do gymnastics, and the delivery process is also shorter than the latter.

Pregnancy gymnastics can relieve fatigue and stress of expectant mothers and enhance their confidence in natural childbirth. Of course, pregnancy is a special physiological process after all. Expectant mothers should pay attention to exercise time, amount of exercise, and warm-up preparation when practicing gymnastics to prevent excessive fatigue and avoid uterine contractions. In addition, women with a history of habitual miscarriage, premature birth, placenta previa during this pregnancy, or severe medical complications should not perform pregnancy gymnastics.