heart shaped womb?

[sparklygothkat]

Have been looking on my scan and it appears that my womb is heart shaped? Is this just the way the scan was done, or is it actually heart shape?

A womb is pear shaped, so I guess it would look like a heart shape on a scan.

it is possible, but, could also be the angle of the scan. If you DID have a heart shaped uterus they would have said so I think...

thats what I thought, worried as I have had 3 premature births, so everything is playing on my mind

you can have a uterus that is a different shape. but usually you will be told, as can affect pregnancy and delivery.

is it bicornate?

bicornuate uterus

less room for the baby to grow, maybe that is why you have a history of prem labour, as baby runs out of space??

It was a scan done 2 weeks ago, as I was having pain, on both pictures you can ssee a dip at the top of my womb

is this worth mentioning to your midwife or conultant? you are obviously worried

has there been no mention in this or other pregnancies of a differently shaped uterus?

I am seeing my MW on thursday, my premature labours have never been investigated, so I don;t know why I can't carry. What happens is contractions start, I dilate and waters break, then they are born, so normal labour but too early

maybe it is connected, if baby fills the available space, then maybe that triggers labour?

DS was breech, but the girls turned head down. I managed to hold onto DS the longest

It is possible, a heart shaped womb is called a bicornuate uterus. It's not a very common shape to have, I think it's about 3% of women have this abnormal shaped womb. I myself have this unusual shaped womb and I was aware of this long before I became pregnant but I was told by my obstetrican, when I brought it up with him at my first consultation, that the shape of the womb is actually very hard to see during pregnancy and an unusual shaped womb is not normally spotted when you are pregnant. It's usually observed during a routine scan of the womb when not pregnant. It can affect a pregnancy in a number of ways although this is not always the case and most often things are fine. For example, there's a much higher chance of a breech baby since there simply isn't the room at the top of the uterus for the baby to lie head first. I don't mean to worry you but there is also a higher chance of preterm delivery and in some cases miscarriage. I was so worried about this when I found out I had this shaped womb but so far so good with this pregnancy and I'm in my third trimester now. Baby is actually breech at the moment and may or may not turn before delivery, we shall see. There's really no way to know for sure what you were looking at on the scan unless you speak to the sonagrapher and/or a consultant obstetrician. I would not recommend discussing it with your midwife only because I've found their knowledge regarding this sort of shaped womb very limited, as is their ability to accurately tell you what you were looking at in the scan. Speak to the midwife though to mention your concern and perhaps get recommended to a consultant, if you don't already have one, to talk to him or her or you could even try calling the department that actually perfoms the scans to try to get some advice from them. Hope this helps!

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