Questioning the abilities of ultrasound technicians

[Willieowinsbury]

I'm almost eleven weeks pregnant and due to some complicating factors I have had six scans performed in five different facilities across London, NHS and private. Five out of the six were internal and one abdominal.
I am really grateful for the care I have received, and all the doctors/midwives and sonographers have been pleasant and seemed competent.
However I am getting quite confused at the conflicting reports I receive. Half the time they say my uterus is retroverted and half say anteverted. I thought that a retroverted uterus gradually corrects itself as pregnancy progresses but mine is apparently flip flopping from one extreme to the other if the reports are to be believed.
In addition, three said that there was a corpus luteum cyst on the right while two said it was left and one said there was none (so it disappeared then reappeared). And despite the repeated claim that internal scans are more accurate at finding detail, only the abdominal scan found my small-to-medium subchorionic haemmorhage. The subsequent vaginal scan a week later couldn't see it even though the previous technician said it wouldn't be reabsorbed for at least six weeks in her opinion.
Luckily the baby appears fine throughout this, but I'm starting to feel that perhaps the reason for many 'unexplained' miscarriages could have been spotted by a different technician, or a different type of scan.
In addition, when I had my first consultant appointment I told him about the haemmorhage and asked if he had any recommendations, he just launched into a tirade of 'one on three pregnancies ends in miscarriage before 14 weeks and there's nothing you can do to stop it if it's going to happen. You don't need to stop exercise and you shouldn't lie down because it won't help.' I would really urge people to do their own 'homework' because many other countries have different views on preventing haemmorhages from worsening and I just can't see how going for a run wouldn't increase blood flow to the pool of leaking blood behind the placenta!

I cannot speak for private scanners but the NHS ones are highly experienced. With regard to the anteverted/retroverted uterus position, I have a retroverted one normally and I have had lots of scans (pregnancy / pelvic inflammatory disease / gynaecology issues) and mine would sometimes go between the two positions even during the course of a single scan. The sonographer would say "oh, your uterus has just gone anteverted". This has happened to me more than once. Remember, things are loosening in pregnancy so it's possible that it will move a bit back and forth until baby gets big enough for it to stay put. Cysts can increase and decrease in size for various reasons.
It sounds like you're getting bogged down by things you don't necessarily understand and that doesn't mean that the sonographer is incompetent or that there is anything wrong with what's happening with your pregnancies.

I know it's really stressful but I have cysts, right and left ovary and sometimes they're big, sometimes they're small or sometimes they've "dissolved". What I'm trying to say is that everything that the sonographers have said to you seem completely plausible. How many NHS / private scans have you had and over what time frame?
I don't know much about the haemorrhage as not experienced that personally or done much research into it.