4/5 (fiths)
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Topic: 4/5 (fiths)
Posted By: shelleybean
Subject: 4/5 (fiths)
Date Posted: 06 October 2006 at 8:50am
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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!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 06 October 2006 at 8:55am
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Engaged that much in the pelvis I think. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Kellz
Date 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 By: Two Blondinis
Date 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 ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
 
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 06 October 2006 at 9:34am
| 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!! |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 06 October 2006 at 9:45am
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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  ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: shelleybean
Date Posted: 06 October 2006 at 9:58am
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Yeah, I think they measure with there fingers dont they??? Very interesting though. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Maya
Date 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. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Maya
Date 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). ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 06 October 2006 at 11:24am
| 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"! |
Posted By: AnnC
Date 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 ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 06 October 2006 at 6:50pm
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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 By: Two Blondinis
Date 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) ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 06 October 2006 at 8:48pm
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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!  ------------- |