Heart shaped uterus

[Deeja]

Hi,

I'm very new here and have just started TTC. I was told a couple of weeks ago that I had a bicornate uterus. The doctor didn't tell me much more than this but I have looked at a lot of stuff on the web. Anyone else here know anything first hand?

hello, i am just like you with a bi-cornate uterus and i have a little girl who is 2years old. so as you can imagine I have lots of first hand experience. So many things you may like to know but not sure where to start!!
here is my email address please feel free to ask me any questions you like.
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take care.

My sister has one of these. They vary in severity. She has a little boy who is almost 2, her's is mid, like a heart.

Thank you Klover and Phantom for getting back to me. When I first heard of a bi-cornate uterus I had no idea at all what it all meant for me. Now I understand that up to 1 in 25 women have it to some extent or other and I don't have to feel all weird and strange.

I understand that the risks of many things are higher....but it's all doable. At first I was worried that I might never be able to carry a child to term or at least long enough to be healthy. Now I know that I will probably be able to.

Anyway thanks girls. You are stars.

I have one too, and also have 3 children.

My second child was born 6 weeks early but doctors said it might not have been down to the shape of my womb.

My other 2 were born at 38 weeks and 37 weeks and neither were delivered before 40 weeks because of my womb, but for other medical reasons.

I have one and am mum to two dds. DD1 was born 4 weeks early and dd2 was seven weeks early but they're both fine and I was fortunate enough to have no probs conceiving. It's totally doable and far more common that people imagine. Heart shaped sounds good, mine is split in two and I carry only on one side, I look rather odd during pregnancy, all flat on one side and baby on the other. Belly button has never quite returned to the centre, but it's a small price to pay for two beautiful babies!

My friend has a bicornate uterus, not totally separated into two chambeers, but almost. It's something that happens pre-natally, because - to explain v unscientifically - the body grows in 2 halves and sometimes the 'wall' in the middle of the halves doesn't completely disappear. This friend also found she only has one kidney, which might be a related issue!

She had no probs conceiving, but had a mc, then a normal birth, then a mc then a normal birth. It depended on what side of her uterus the embroyo implanted. She also needed caesareans because of the way the babies lay in her uterus - obstructed route to the vaginal canal meant nvd wasn't possible.

So it can cause complications but as ops have said, it's not excessivley weird! So good luck!

I was checked to see if I had two kidneys when they discovered my bicornuate uterus. I do have two though.

The two halves of mine aren't completely seperated but one half is alot smaller than the other and I was told that I'd stand little chance of carrying a baby on that side.
My first pregnancy was a twin one and I did lose the baby that was on the smaller side of my womb at 8 weeks.

I think it varies wildly from person to person.
I also needed sections, because all 3 were breech and after about 28 weks there wasn't enough room to turn around.

Should say I also had to have c-sections due to uterus.

Thank you everybody for getting back to me. I think the most annoying thing for me is that the doctor told me and then gave me no real information. Didn't tell me how severe it is, didn't tell me if it's different on each side. I'm clueless at the moment.

I think I'm just going to try ad get pregnant and see what happens. If you lot got there then so can I.

It's odd though - for years I walked around thinking I was totally healthy and wouldn't have any difficulty having children. It was a shock to think I wasn't 'perfect'. Makes me feel more vulnerable for some reason. Very silly really. But you start thinking: without modern medicine I might be one of the women who died in childbirth. Hurray for modern medicine and the medical profession who I do complain about occasionally but actually are ace now I think about it.