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shelleybean 
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 8:50am |
Can some please explain to me what this actually means. I remember going through this in our classes, but can't quite remember.
Can someone please jog my memory - hahaha.... 
Our baby is 4/5 at the moment!!!
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mummy_becks
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 8:55am |
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Engaged that much in the pelvis I think.
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 8:58am |
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I have had 2 different midwives lately, and they both write the "decent" in different ways. One puts a down arrow,..and one puts an up arrow before it,...so 4/5 could either by 4/5 of the head is down in pelvis,..or 4/5 of the head is palpable.
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 9:07am |
 weird!
I'd just ask them. To me that looks like one MW is saying it is almost engaged and ready to go, and the other is saying that it still has another 4 stages to go before engaging!?!??!
I had 2 MWs too, and they both had their own VERY different ways of explaining/writing things down
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 9:34am |
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Yeah it is weird! But unfortunaly the 4/5 thing isnt mine! Yesterday there was 3/5 of the head palpable, and thats as low as bubs has ever been,..not low at all!! Come on bubba!!
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 9:45am |
i think it's a measure of how low down in the pelvis bubs is sitting.
i was 5/5 engaged last week and still haven't given birth so i wouldn't worry about the measurements 
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 9:58am |
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Yeah, I think they measure with there fingers dont they??? Very interesting though.
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 11:15am |
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Sienna has been 3/5 (D3) for about 3 weeks now, and the little witch still isn't moving.
Maya on the other hand was 0/5 the day before I went into labour.
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 11:16am |
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Oh but forgot to say that the head being in is a good thing, if your waters break there is no risk of cord compression (the cord lapsing below bubs head).
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 11:24am |
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Yeah thats what the midwife said yesterday. That even tho the head is not engaged, its good that its sitting in the pelvis, and not "floating about"!
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 5:41pm |
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with my last one it meant it was head down in the pelc=vis so far but 5/5 being just there and 1/5 being you should give birth very soon (the lowest can go before birth) my midwife measures belly different she goes right round instead of the girth
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 6:50pm |
Ella was engaged really low like that for weeks haha she was ready but not willing to enter the coldness hehe
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 8:42pm |
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Caitlin was so low down 6 days before I had her (last MW visit) that the MW queried if she had missed that bubs was breach and sent me for a scan (she wasn't - just had broad shoulders apparently)
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Posted: 06 October 2006 at 8:48pm |
Once they are engaged it also means they won't flip out of position - that's the biggest encouragement it offers. The head is probably 4/5 down, with 5/5 being as close as it can get before coming out. In saying that I think both my girls reached about 3/5 before I went into (spontaneous) labour.
Summary: it's good news! 
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4/5 (fiths)
