Cervical shortening - can anyone help?

[sam965]

Hello - can anyone help? With my first pregnancy, I had cervical shortening, and ended up on bed rest, with progesterone pessaries etc. and i found the whole thing very frightening and stressful. In the end, after ALL the worry, my baby was born at 42+2 via forceps, fit and healthy. We now want to try for another pregnancy but I am worried about it happening again. I had heard that there was a fairly clearcut way of predicting whether cervical shortening would recur but my GP had no idea what I was talking about. I have not been able to get in touch with any consultant to ask the question and wondered if anyone knew the answer. What's the chance of cervical shortening happening again, because I am not sure I can go through all the stress again....
Thanks!

any ideas anyone!?!?!?!?

I'm having a scan at 17 weeks to check for cervical length. I've had 1 lletz and had to push for it. But because you've got actual 'proof', I imagine you'll be referred for a scan even earlier. If not, push for it! Don't leave until they give you that extra scan!

Sam, I don't know of any way of predicting cervical shortening and my ob consultant said there's no way of knowing if it will happen. I lost my first baby at 23 weeks and they think it was due to my cervix as i has previous LLETZ but they couldn't prove it. I'm now 28 weeks on my second pregnancy and I'm being monitored very differently. I had a cervical stitch put in at 13 weeks and my cervix was measured every 4 weeks afterwards to monitor it. I also had progesterone injections weekly to help strengthen the cervix. My consultant said this was the only way to manage the pregnancy in my case and so far it has been successful. This might be worth keeping in mind for your next pregnancy and you can ask your doctors if any of this might help you

thanks mrscrankypants -thank you for your reply...so sorry to hear you lost a baby...and congratulations on this one....so glad to hear that you are getting all the right treatment to keep him/her in there. my GP said she is going to find out what the story is with it all...perhaps I'll post on here in case you're interested...