Newly Pregnant with 2 wombs!

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Hello everyone,

I have just found out I'm pregnant with my first. I have a condition where my womb + cervix are split in half by a septum. It did also extend through the vagina but I had that removed around 10 years ago when I was 19.

I am currently 4W4D and very excited. I was nauseous and threw up this morning, and boobs are tender. I woke up this morning and had some quite painful cramping that made me have to pause, but I've come into work and it seems to have died down now. I know cramping is normal but that was more than my usual period cramps and scared me a little. No bleeding though.

I contacted my GP and told them I am pregnant and about my condition, but they just referred me to the online self-referral form. Is this normal? I've filled it in and sent it off but have had no automated response to say it's been sent or anything so hoping it's all good.

It's scary enough being newly pregnant with my first and then having this on top of everything is adding to my anxiety.

Just looking for anyone's reassurance about that cramping, advice, or if the system was the same for you with regards to the doctor?

Thank you!

Congratulations :) cramping can definitely be normal, particularly if it has settled down. I’m not in the UK so don’t know the referral pathways for you but just to say that with your didelphys/bicornuate type set up sometimes additional monitoring is recommended, but usually nothing would be done differently before 12-14 weeks anyway (sometimes some extra scans after that time). So filling out the usual form sounds okay. Hopefully someone with more direct experience will come along to comment also :)

You've got the same condition as me (nobody can decide whether its fully separate or didelphic, in reality its much the same so doesnt really matter).

Ive had one live birth at 32 weeks, two miscarriages, and currently 23 weeks pregnant.

The actual management of pregnancy hasn't been all that different, they wont be able to see the other side from about 12 weeks onwards on scans.

I had a LOT of cramping/pain in the first trimester, and im sure you know you're at risk of preterm labour, but my hospital managed this well and I had steroids appropriately when I went into labour.

Best of luck - if you'd like to PM me youre welcome to x

Fully septate*

Hope you don’ mind me asking , can you get pregnant in the other side ? Have you been advised not to have sex

i had one womb and had fair bit of cramping with both of mine around the time I would have had my usual period so I was panicking but 2 healthy babies ! Best of luck 🤞

@pimplebum I did IVF so they purposefully put the baby back in their chosen side. My daughter and both miscarriages were left sided, this baby is right sided. But its a very wide ranging condition- so for some people they'll have a huge range of impact e.g. multiple kidneys on either side, multiple ovaries on either side, and some will conceive naturally with no issues. Im sort of in the middle so my tubes dont work (hence ivf) but only two kidneys and two ovaries! Its the same congenital malformation that causes heart shaped uteruses or bicornate uteruses, but just that it happened at a different point of our own development as fetuses x

@TheQuietestSpace From what I can remember from the surgery I had 10 years ago - they had me do an MRI to see what the inside looked like. I believe it's two separate wombs with the septum down the middle, but with only one ovary on each side (potentially?! I can't remember now if they have two each, I need to pull out the old MRI results). Each womb has it's own entrance through the cervix. They also put a camera inside to look at it during the surgery, and they said they were both pink and healthy so when I wanted to start conceiving it shouldn't be difficult. I was 19 at the time so it's taken a decade to get there.

When I had my smear test I had to have it on both sides and one was much harder to reach, I feel like that was the right side, and all of the pregnancy and ovulation pains I usually have/am having are all on my left so I believe that's the stronger one. I also have 2 normally shaped kidneys which was a relief.

I wouldn't be surprised if when I finally get an appointment I'm pregnant in the left side. I know I'm more at risk of pre-term labour, and also more likely to need a c-section. I would really prefer to give birth naturally as the idea of a C-section is terrifying to me, but I'll obviously do whatever's safer.

You sound very similar/same as me (you don't need two smears though... now they just test for HPV you only need one and then two if youre positive and need any further treatment).

I was meant to have a c section with my daughter and ultimately did but a cock up on maternity meant that I laboured until fully dilated and had my daughter not been breach, id have delivered vaginally after all even though my consultant said it wouldn't be possible to get her out that way. But baby is more likely to be breech as they cant spin round as easily!

You'll be able to tell which side baby is in later on as I had a very wonky bump - thankfully only noticeable to me and not the general public but it was most strange!