Question for Mears (again!) What is a 'boggy uterus'?

[oliveoil]

Question for Mears or anyone who may know. I had my scan appointment yesterday (I am about 13 wks) and the midwife checked my previous delivery records (emergency section) and put on my new notes:

Abnorm CTG
Prolonged ruptered mems
EBL 750 mls (this was underlined)

but the best one was "boggy uterus"

What the hell does that mean? Doesn't sound very complimentary to me

Not very toned maybe? Sympathies Oliveoil, when I tentatively queried why I had needed two units of blood after my second c-section, my surgeon said rather sternly - you had varicose veins all over your uterus. Cheers.

Your boggy uterus can be my valentine any day, oliveoil!

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don't want to brag or anything but my surgeon told me during my first c/s that I had a lovely, healthy uterus and he'd see me back there in a year's time (dd was born nearly 3 years later, but was unconscious this time so not sure if it's still lovely...)
oliveoil, hope you can get this one cleared up, x

Means Uterus has not contracted.

butterfly

Forgot to add, twiglett's description is close (soft uterus (not land!) and more blood about (ie wet!)).

I thought maybe she had misread the docs notes but baggy/boggy/soggy/saggy still sound shite.

Butterflymum - if it didn't contract, is this why I had a section?

Also, what is abnormal CTG? Am I deformed?????

Marina - better than on your legs, you can't see them

Cardiotocograph (CTG) is a record of the fetal heart rate (FHR) either measured from a transducer on the abdomen or a probe on the fetal scalp. In addition to the fetal heart rate another transducer measures the uterine contractions over the fundus. Abornmal may have meant baby was in distress (although not definite) hence likelyhood of intervention (ie Section).

I don't know about boggy, but i've got a abnormaly shaped uterus and was once greeted by a junior doc as 'the lady with the funny womb'. The technical name is bicoruate uterus, and i caught him looking it up in the nedical dictionary
My mom works on maternity so i'll ask her what a boggy uterus is and abnomal CTG is

oliveoil, I had "hot vagina" on mine

Aha! Babba was in distress and they had a probe getting a sample off her head (?) which now makes sense. Are you in medicine BM?

Next one - EBL 750 mls. I presume this relates to fluids of some sort?

Bundle - you hotmama you!

Go on BM, what's the tech term for that?

I know - it sounds like some kind of special service you see written on cards in London phone boxes...

Wow Bundle!

ROFL!!!
I was told I had a 'boggy uterus' after m/c. It meant not contracted as someone else says, but I had to ask them what an earth they were implying!!!!!

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You don't need me at all - you have had your questions answered correctly
It is not unusual for someone to have a 'boggy uterus' after a long labour where the muscles of the uterus give up the ghost for a while and do not contract. The contracting muscled stop the placental bed area from bleeding once the placenta is out and the uterus then feels well contracted. A boggy uterus is the opposite. The treatment is to'rub it' either directly at C/S or through your tummy post delivery. Drugs can make it contract too.

mears, what about my - was that because I was labouring for a long time & not dilating quickly?

LOL @ Bundle!

It's not something you want to put into "Google" is it? Imagine the sites it would chuck back at you

That's exactly it Bundle. You get hot and dehydrated generally when you have laboured for a long time. Hope it has recovered fully

Lol, now we can all sleep peacefully knowing that!

I vomited a lot during early labour, then asked for an epidural and got a drip to help rehydrate me. even a tiny capful of water to rinse out my mouth made me puke
then dd1 got acidotic and I had a c/s, so all worked out in the end (got to a hot 8cm)
I think it's recovered now

LOL Bundle!! Tell that one to your DH/P I dare you!!!!!