Pumpkin carvings show the horrifying stages of dilation during childbirth

HALLOWEEN is upon us and pumpkins are scaring us for more than one reason, after midwives carved the ten stages of labour into them. Taking their pumpkin decorating to the extreme, they illustrated how much a cervix dilates during childbirth – up to ten centimetres. 3 The pumpkins’ expressions perfectly capture childbirth Credit: Facebook/Pregnant Chicken Midwives from the Royal Oldham Hospital, in Lancashire, used the mouths of ten pumpkins to show the cervix from 1cm dilated to 10cm – and the results are terrifying. The team added googly eyes onto the gourds to give them suitably horrified facial expressions –… Read Full Article