Dilation?

I'm wondering the same thing. Is there any way I can tell without going to the doctor???

The only way to tell if you are dialated is to be checked by a doctor or nurse. You can't feel yourself dialating.

Only your doctor would know if you are dialating and about the 35 week bit that's not true because i started dialating at 31 weeks...

Quoting Melissa Yarrington:“ Ok I have a really stupid question. I am about 33 weeks and they say you can start dilating as soon as ... [snip!] ... no way to really know. I have been getting some pain down there sometimes and then it goes away. I also get pressure with it.”

I told my doctor that it felt like someone was stabbing me in the vagina with a knife and I had a lot of pressure and she said that I might be dilating. I have my 36 week appt tomorrow and she is going to check.

if thats the case about it feeling like you are being stabbed in the vagina than I have been dialated a really long time.

http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=458955

Quoting GlowingTamra:“ if thats the case about it feeling like you are being stabbed in the vagina than I have been dialated a really long time.”

I guess in my case with all the other things going on in my case: pressure, loss of mucus plug,head alreadyin my pelvis where my doc can feel it, etc. that would be her educated guess. I never felt like someone was stabbing me until about 2 weeks ago.

I got that feeling quite a bit later in my pregnancy... and only ever dilated to a fingertip, after 16 hours of contractions... so that's certainly not what it was for me. I've heard of websites that take you through self-checking for dilation but never used one...