5/5 Is fully engaged and it works on a sliding scale, so 2/5 is just above the brim I *think*. But it still gives no indicator of how long until labour starts, just that baby is engaged and ready to go.
I thought it was backwards? Like 2/5 means that there is 2/5 left still to engage, 4/5 still has 4/5 left to engage. Does that make sense? So you are most engaged when you are 1/5 engaged. I could be wrong though!! LOL
LOL at grabbing the neck Tracey! No worries, I stand corrected. Isn't it crazy that they do it both ways! You'd think they'd find a universal way to write it!
Ha Ha Linda, women have been having babies since... Well forever & I have read so many varying Ob, Midwife opinions etc on here by all the various ladies & stages of preg, that I'd probably be knocked over with a feather if 2 ever agreed!!! LOL
Thanks
I have got 5/5 written on my card.. so I guess fully engaged it is... woohoo.
I hope that this for me, means something is happening...although all these pains im getting might suggest that too...I HOPE!!!
It is actually the other way around. I asked my doctor this the other day as she wrote 4/5 on my card. She said the lower the number (5/5, 4/5, 3/5, 2/5, 1/5, 0/5) the more engaged the babies head is.Basically it is to do with the finger widths or cm's above the pelvis bubs head was.. So you count down and when you get to 1/5-0/5 you are pretty much fully engaged.
Nicki, is your measurement by the midwives, or your ob?
If it's the midwives they did 4/5 with a little arrow pointing up for me, so check if you've got any arrows seeing as they are the same midwives. and I know my little bugger definetly wasn't engaged much at that appointment. I have an appointment tomorrow, so I'll try to remember to check with them, what i am and what it means.
It should have changed for me as I have felt a lot more pressure over the last 2 weeks, but I still don't feel like he's descending!!
when my midwife did mine she said that a fifth equals a finger... so say you lay a finger along the top of your pubic bone... horizontally along your nickers line... thats 1/5 engaged , meaning bubs head would be just poking out of your pelvis...
therefore- 0/5 engaged you would be able to feel no head when you put that finger along the top of your pubic bone as bubs head would be in your pelvis(and you would more than likely have a sexy waddle going on) and 5/5 engaged means you can line up all your fingers along your pubic bone as bubs head is still up there...
did that make sense???
so with 4/5 and an arrow going up the page, the arrow means 4/5 of the head are not in the pelvis, 4/5 not engaged, 1/5 engaged.
Just had my midwife appt & a different moidiwfe whom said defiantely Zyon is & has been fully engaged as thats'the way they measure!
So as I said above, they all have their own ways of doing it, berst to ask your particular caregiver to ask which way they do it! On top of that he has move from his posterior position into a much bettyer position... WOOO HOOO!
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