Bicornate uterus (heart shaped uterus)

[Hydrangea08]

Hi I'm new to mumsnet so not entirely sure how this works..
I'm just over 5 weeks pregnant (miscarried last December so keeping everything crossed ) I had some spotting this week so had an early scan yesterday where there was a heartbeat which was great but the sonographer said it looked as though my uterus was bicornate. They weren't very reassuring at the hospital does anyone have any personal info to put my mind at rest a little ?

My DGM has one and had three DC utterly undiagnosed. It came to light because my DAunt had to have an operation and had one so they scanned the rest of the family. She also had two healthy DC.

My SIL has one and has two children. I don't know whether they had a hard time along the way, I don't think so. I'm sorry I can't be more useful.

I told the midwife this at my booking in and she said that if I did have one (I don’t) then it would mean more scans because it wasn’t boring and bog-standard (which is a wonderful thing to be when pregnant!).

Thankyou for the comments I have read some posts on here that are quite reassuring but made the mistake of googling it which terrified me! No more Google for me

I have a quite severe bicornste uterus - my uterus is divided into two chambers and I have two cervixes (cervii?)

I was diagnosed before I became pregnant but I managed 2/2 on healthy babies, one at 37 weeks abd one at 32 weeks. The risk is less room means earlier labour, and also as my womb is septate if the placenta grew on the dividing area it may not be strong enough/enough blood supply to support it.

It sounds like yours in nothing like that and if they know you have a slight anomaly they will keep an eye too. Good luck with the pregnancy, I'm really sorry to hear about your previous loss abd I hope this goes well for you. Congratulations.

It's called a Mullerian anomaly if you want to look it up, there are many levels of severity and some carry more risk than others.

Sorry about typos 😬

I have one and I didn't know about it until first scan. I was told this kind of abnormality goes hand in hand with kidney abnormalities, such as a horseshoe kidney or a floating kidney and I already knew that I was born with one kidney. The other is where it should be but shrivelled and tiny. That's never caused me any problem though. My first child came at 37 weeks and the second at 36. I gave up work a bit earlier than most people considered normal and had a lot of questions about that but felt it was for the best. The watched me a bit closer towards the end and I was not expecting to go past 36 weeks so 37 weeks is good with a bicornuate uterus i'm told. Only got to 36 weeks the following pregnancy. Stopped there!

Hi 👋🏼

I have that. I also had spotting throughout pregnancy (apparently half my uterus didn't know it was pregnant 🤷🏻‍♀️) but had a healthy baby. Baby was breach, due to the heart shape there was no room to turn. So a planned c-section but no other issues.

Try not to worry (easier said than done). I think it's 1/25 women have this but most don't know. Not a big problem for most.

Congratulations on your pregnancy! Sending positive vibes your way.