Ok so I'm going to come access like a hypochondriac. I've had quite a few early miscarriages and some D&C operations as a result. I'd like the chance to be checked for an incompetent cervix...a lady I work with lost a baby to this and I'm really paranoid about it. My midwife said unless you have had a late loss the NHS won't check you, but as I've never got this far before I wouldn't know how my cervix would behave.
Basically the NHS have shut down on me, told me it only happens in 2 pregnancies out of 100 and if something did happen they would prevent it if I got pregnant in the future.
Does anyone know any companies that do this! I don't mind paying for peace of mind. I'm in the West Midlands area but can travel a bit.
I just feel really sad for all the people who have to lose a baby because the NHS are too tight fisted to check them over 
they say it's so rare they can't justify it. So would you just need to go into labour before they will check you? I know they didn't check mine at my 20 week scan, j asked specifically
Sorry, long post!
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EmmaHealy23 · 26/11/2017 11:32
May I ask at how many weeks did your friend lose her baby OP?
I am currently undergoing the same kind of anxiety and when I asked to be put under cervical monitoring due to my paranoia and anxiety, I was plainly refused
I am also currently 23 weeks so can relate to you on so many levels OP.
I understand your worries 
I had ds at 34 weeks with almost painless contractions and my cervix was 9 cm by the time I got to hospital. It's good to hear from experts it's probably not an ic if I held on so long.
Pregnancy is one of the most stressful things you can ever do. Honestly, even if they told you everything was ok, you'd be onto the next worry.
The fact that you are at 23 weeks with no problems is quite reassuring 
if something was to happen from now, the doctors would intervene to give baby the best chance.
Oh I really feel for you OP! I’ve got hypermobility syndrome (which can be a risk factor) and spent most of the second trimester in a state of anxiety. Midwives weren’t interested as first pregnancy and have never had a loss. I considered a private scan but as others said it’s hard to know whether the measurement would be significant without a baseline. I’m 41 weeks pregnant now which makes me want to laugh in some ways given all that worry.
I suppose just wanted to empathise and wish you luck. Do what you need to for reassurance but sounds like you’re heading out of danger territory now anyway
if they had caught it earlier they could have given her some drugs for his lungs
These would have been steroids to mature his lungs. Babies born under and around 24 weeks gestation do not really have the lung capacity to survive after birth, so if they suspect a possible preterm birth, they give steroids.
she said it happens to 1-2 people in every 100
Bollocks. 
I don't know where those figures actually come from, but they seem comically high. It would mean that there were 7500 IC-related second trimester losses in the UK every year, and err ... there just aren't.
Put it this way, my local hospital oversees 5000 births a year. I was the only IC case some of the consultants, and all of the midwives, had seen in their careers. The regional obstetric consultant that looked after me during my successful pregnancy, who is also one of the handful of consultants that specialises in IC in the UK, only surgically treats about three or five IC-affected women a year out of tens of thousands of pregnancies in our region.
The NHS website it states D&C procedures put you at a higher risk.
What you need to remember here is that not all D&C procedures are the same. The statistics that inform the notion of D&C procedures increasing risk could very well be referring to D&Cs done twenty years ago when procedures were different, or D&Cs that were particularly invasive.
Total naivety on my part that if they could scan or monitor something then they would. It's surprised me you have to lose a baby first.
You simply could not properly scan every pregnant woman for IC in the UK every year. It would cost a fortune. You are talking about an extra seven to eight scans per pregnant woman with the associated sonographical training.
To give you an idea of where the land lies with this, an IC support campaign group are just, at the moment, trying to work towards getting a consistent IC treatment pathway in place for women that have already had one or two suspected IC losses.
From what I understand it's painless with hardly any symptoms
This depends. My first IC loss was preceded by nagging constant abdominal discomfort and pain from about 16 weeks before my waters broke at 20 weeks.
I apologise for asking what appears to be a stupid question.
It was, most emphatically, not a stupid question. There are a lot of misunderstandings about the condition and the more people know, the better.
That you are already 23 weeks is an incredibly good sign. I really would not worry too much if I were you, but I know that is easy to say and very difficult to do.
Emma, if it takes weight off your mind, then do it.
Besides, it's very interesting to see your cervix and pregnancy from the perspective of a trans vaginal scan.
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