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What happens to your cervix in early pregnancy? how do you know what it feels like? how can you feel it? is it closed? i just want to know

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The cervix remains: closed during early pregnancy and it is located very far back in the vaginal vault. It remains hard until weeks before the delivery.

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Answered 10/13/2019

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