Does every women giving birth experience crowning?

Or is there a chance some bebes heads are smaller and they just slide out more quick? Crowning sounds so terrifying ...

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Crowning is when you can see baby’s head. It happens to all women unless you get a c section.

Happens during all natural births. Don’t be terrified it’s not nearly as terrifying as it sounds. Main thing is to really trust your body and you’ll be fine. Try not to worry you’ve got this xx

Babies don't slide out you have to push them out, crowning is when the head is there and then you push. After it all it will be worth it x

You could see the top of my daughters head poking out, I pushed and pushed but couldn’t get her out. So I had an episiotomy and all of her shot out so I avoided the crowning!

I think everyone is different. I was crowning for an hour and a half ugh was so crazy. And sooooo painful. It was then I thought I couldn’t do it but then I pushed through. And here we are. Its such a relief once you get that head through. My cousin said she crowned for two hours.

Crowing is just seeing babies head. So as long as they aren't breech or a c section, all babies crown because all of their heads come out.

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