Random question..

[Soon2BeMumTo3]

Where do the ovaries/ Fallopian tubes etc go during pregnancy? No pictures of babies in the womb show them?? Obviously they’re there somewhere 😂. I was thinking they go upward into the abdomen with the growing uterus.. but could they stay down at the bottom near the pelvis? Is this a stupid question? Haha. Pregnancy brain has me all confused!

This is SUCH a good question, which I've never considered but now have to know!

Omg I thought I was the only one to wonder about this.

At my ultrasounds I expected to see my ovaries floating around in the whole womb vicinity. But I was too embarrassed to ask for fear of being mocked.... because I do have a tendency to blurt out my 'quirky' thoughts!

They’re not in the womb are they? So wouldn’t appear on the ultrasound. The fertilised egg travels along the tube to the womb to implant... I think?...!

They arnt in the womb. I believe they stay in place as the uterus grows.

Thank goodness you don’t all think hormones have turned me loopy! I don’t think they’d be in the womb.. my thoughts were that they just sort of stayed in place but rose with the womb? Who knows?! I will ask at my next scan 😂

The uterus stretches rather than rises if that makes sense. So they do slightly "rise" with the uterus but not significantly.

But if the whole thing stretches as the womb expands, do the tubes go back to their normal length afterwards? So are Fallopian tubes elasticated?!

Someone def needs to find this out for sure.

The Fallopian tubes don't stretch. The uterus stretches.

Well your scan only shows inside the uterus (doesn’t it?). So even if they do move with the uterus, you still wouldn’t see them on the scan.

Long story short, they go wherever they fit.

As PP have said, they float around and your womb expands and stretches, unless you have a gynaecologist problem like endometriosis, they float and just go where they fit.

On my scans with DD2 I was shown my ovary and tube stuck in place and unable to move, thanks to gynae issues. Caused so much pain as she grew it was awful. Now been advised no more pregnancies because of this.

Hope that helps

I’m a midwife and have never even thought about this! 😂 Surely it was mentioned in my first year anatomy module!

I can tell you that when they (sometimes) take the womb out to sew it back up after a caesarean, you don’t see them so they’re not usually attached!

So strange! Literally no pictures of the anatomy of a woman in pregnancy show them. Thanks Archie that sounds feasible!

I'm pretty sure both scans I've had so far they have also made a point of looking at my ovaries to check everything is healthy and normal... not sure of their exact location,m at that point, but to be fair I'm only 14 weeks at the moment so they probably haven't moved very far!