Pregnant with endometriosis

[IndaFlowers]

Hi ladies.

I hope you are all rocking whatever stage of this crazy journey you may be in.

I am pregnant with endometriosis, I had a laporoscopy and hysteroscopy last year to clear some tissue and adhesions and was very lucky to get my BFP earlier this month =)

However I have been advised that due to my endometriosis my pregnancy may be treated as high risk. This was never mentioned by any of my healthcare providers prior to my bfp and they all knew we were trying.

Is this the case for all endometriosis pregnancies?

Thanks in advance for any information or replies x

I have endo to, with my first ds was classes as a normal pregnancy, how Eva he was born at 28 weeks so with this pregnancy I'm classed as high risk but that is due to pre term birth not the endo.
I have never been told having endo would make you a high risk pregnancy, only thing I had was a lot of round ligament pain, which I put down to the scar tissue stretching.
Maybe slightly more at risk of ectopic if tubes where damaged by the endo x

@boymum88 thanks for sharing.

I had my daughter 12 years ago and labour was difficult and ended in emergency C. I had always said if I got pregnant again I would like to try Vbac. But current opinion seems to be that with previous Cesarean + laporoscopy and hysteroscopy to help treat endo vbac may not be an option and I will need to be monitored closely.

Have another appointment Monday so may get to ask some more questions

Hi @IndaFlowers bit late to the thread but..I'm also pregnant (15 weeks) and have endo. Had previous laparoscopy and hysteroscopy. My pregnancy isn't being treated as high risk at the moment (although I'm 'geriatric' as well haha).

The main issue is that I have experienced loads of pain which I've been told is a result of the scar tissue stretching and remaining adhesions. I don't know if you/others have experienced this but I have found several health professionals (GP, midwives..) quite clueless about endo in pregnancy with several trotting out the line that pregnancy cures/improves endo ( FWIW while pregnancy may improve the symptoms for some women, it doesn't for all and nor does it magically heal adhesions and scar tissue - the cause of much pain). I've found the best info out from chat boards like this and also a consultant I was able to see (which hopefully you may be able to if you do get labelled as 'high risk').

So doesn't really answer your question but basically it seems like there isn't a consistent approach to endo in pregnancy and perhaps depends on how individual woman are/experience the pregnancy. I hope you get some clarity soon and really good luck with your journey.

I have endometriosis and have had a laparoscopy and the midwife didn’t say at the booking appointment that this makes me high risk (but I was put on the high risk pathway due to it being an IVF pregnancy). So I agree that there doesn’t seem like a consistent approach.