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Original poster

Can you touch your cervix?

97 replies

PrettyCandles · 10/07/2006 21:26

I can't.

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southeastastra · 10/07/2006 22:18

has everyone run off to try!

bloss · 10/07/2006 22:33

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1Baby1Bump · 10/07/2006 22:34

i cant touch mine but a particular part of dh sometimes does and it really hurts!

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PrettyCandles · 10/07/2006 22:36

PT (or any midwives), does one's cervix move 'away' during pregnancy? I imagined that the extra weight would push it downwards - though of course getting one's arm past the bump would make it harder to reach as well.

This is just curiousity on my part - I gave up trying to reach my cervix myself years ago.

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Pruni · 10/07/2006 22:37

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hunkermunker · 10/07/2006 22:39

Did anyone watch BBC1 at 7pm this evening?

Some women on there who used to have Marxist-type meetings and Explore Themselves.

Now, I thought they'd mean spiritually, or something.

But no.

The word "speculum" was mentioned. And then cervix.

And this was an hour and a half pre-watershed [Victorian "I'm a laydee" protestations]

Original poster
PrettyCandles · 10/07/2006 22:41

No, I didn't - coincidence. Are you any the wiser, hunker, or too traumatised?

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FrannyandZooey · 10/07/2006 22:47

I have this terrible urge to start an evil twin to this thread, called

Can I touch your cervix?

1Baby1Bump · 10/07/2006 22:48

no u may not!

FrannyandZooey · 10/07/2006 22:50

fine

nooka · 10/07/2006 22:58

Still not sure why I would want to try????

Piffle · 10/07/2006 23:00

yes I know it intimately after ttc and using it as a fertility indicator

NotAnOtter · 10/07/2006 23:01

boiled egg eewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

controlfreaky2 · 10/07/2006 23:08

used to encounter it when fishing about trying to get diaphragm out in pre children era... not tried since!

PinkTulips · 11/07/2006 11:03

PC - not sure if it's supposed to move. was having extremely bad Braxton Hicks at 22 weeks and did a google search which said if your cervix was softened or starting to dilate to panic otherwise not so i checked and it was quite low down and soft but when i've checked it since it seems to have disappeared further up! no way in my life am i asking a midwife why as that would mean admiting to a rl person that i've been investigating!

i do know i could feel it before being pregnant though.

JessaJam · 11/07/2006 11:18

I used to be able to pre-baby
Now it seems to have vanished!!!!

schneebly · 11/07/2006 11:25

nope - Midwives had trouble too - it is very far back! Makes examinations even more uncomfortable!

Furball · 11/07/2006 11:37

I can! And yes a boiled egg with a hole in it is quite accurate.

Original poster
PrettyCandles · 11/07/2006 12:58

Nooka - using a diaphragm, possibly when TTC (does one? I don't know). Or even just curiousity!

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ScoobyDooooo · 11/07/2006 13:04

Yuuk no way would not even want to if i am honest, i dont think i would find it anyway because aparently it is quite high up i have been told by my doctor.

kiskidee · 11/07/2006 13:06

squat and insert fingers. most people can touch their own this way.

motherinferior · 11/07/2006 13:07

Course I can.

but then I'm old enough to have read Spare Rib in the days when it had articles - and photos - on self-exam.

motherinferior · 11/07/2006 13:08

Course I can.

but then I'm old enough to have read Spare Rib in the days when it had articles - and photos - on self-exam.

expatinscotland · 11/07/2006 13:08

Yep, and it's a good thing, too, b/c I've got a diaphragm.

elliott · 11/07/2006 13:09

yes really easily, I'm amazed that people can't (and even more amazed that they haven't ever tried to ) Don't you lot ever get the thread of your tampax lost? Or is that tmi...