8. A woman’s body transforms drastically during childbirth.
Giving birth to a child is really tough work — any woman can confirm this. Besides experiencing terrible pain, a woman’s body usually goes through a lot of different changes. One of them is cervix dilation.
During labor, the cervix changes from a tightly closed entrance to a fully open exit for the baby. To be ready for pushing out a child, it needs to fully dilate to 10 cm which is actually the size of a bagel. But these 10 cm only represent the pushing point — the cervix can continue to expand to accommodate the baby’s head.