BABY IS CROWNING!

I read this post by Jo Ellen Stevens on 2 March and I was very excited when I read this part.

Time to Pray in the Spirit, the Baby is Crowning

I hear God say that, “This is a time when My people who know how to pray in the spirit must pray, because they can not possibly birth this baby on their own but it will come through allowing the Holy Spirit to birth this thing through you right now, because the baby is crowning!”

Many have felt like they were in the press to the point of death but God says,“If you will press through this and not look at the results in the natural that there will be a great birthing of a great nation again, only you must press past all that you are seeing and feeling in the natural realm and see from My perspective!  It doesn’t always happen as men perceive.”

And then she quoted Isaiah 66:7-8. 

Before she was in labor, she gave birth.
Before her pangs came upon her, she delivered a boy.
Whoever heard of such a thing?
Whoever saw such things as these?
Can a land come to birth in one day?
Can a nation be born all at once?
Yet as soon as birth pangs came,
Zion bore her children,”  

I googled about what happens when the baby is crowning. Birth crowning, which is when your baby's head starts to emerge bit by bit during each contraction, occurs during the second stage of labour. (A contraction is when the uterine muscle tightens and relaxes to help your baby pass from the uterus into the birth canal.) As you push, your baby's head may appear, but after the contraction is over, it will withdraw from view once again. Once you can see the head and it doesn't slip back in, that's crowning. Once crowning occurs, your baby's arrival is imminent.

You may have been discouraged because you thought you are making progress but then the previous condition relapsed, making you think that you are back to square one. Just like the baby's head may slip back after the contraction is over, the whole point is each time you push, the baby's head goes further down the birth canal and that is progress. It is only a matter of time that the head doesn't slip back in, which is the birth crowning stage. I am here to encourage you to press on, for you might be just that one final push before your 'baby' head crowns!

Labor has multiple stages, the first of which is marked by the onset of contractions and ends with transition. The first stage is the shortest but often the most intense stage of labor. This is followed by active labor, when the cervix dilates more rapidly and contractions are longer, closer together and more intense. This second stage is often referred to as the "pushing" phase, and coincides with the full dilation of your cervix. This is also the stage of labor when birth crowning occurs.

During this second stage of labor, you will push to help your baby finish the descent through your pelvis and into your birth canal. Although every instinct will be urging you to keep pushing, it's best to follow your doctor's direction on exactly when and how to push. After birth crowning, the rest of your baby's head will emerge, followed by your baby's body. Now, you're almost done: All that's left is for you to deliver the placenta, which is the third and final stage of labor.