Hello! Fellow December mum on board 👋🏼
I have a very complicated fertility history and it’s taken me years to get to this point. A few losses and shed loads of IVF, so i’m an absolute nervous wreck.
I won’t bore you with my long, complex history but I have a 13 (almost 14) Year old DD and 4 year old son - @Pitstop1986 If you’re having a boy, I assure you it’s incredible. It’s just “different” They bring so much love and happiness in a way you wouldn’t believe, honestly. I love my kids the exact same, but he is my special Prince 🤣 This baby is another girl, confirmed by NIPT and a few scans.
This is absolutely my 3rd and final pregnancy!
Regarding cervical length - i’m so glad it's been brought up. I’ll never understand why it’s not checked routinely?
Anyway, I had a D&C beginning of January due to another loss. I saw a top Harley Street Gynae early in March who specialised in post D&C adhesions and also IVF. Reason being, my period returned post D&C and it was really weird. I was convinced I had adhesions and then my embryo transfer wouldn’t work so I needed to check for peace of mind. He was expensive but BEST money i’ve ever spent. It was him who told me that my cervix was “Shorter than I would like” And he said to me “Your endometrium is beautiful, go and transfer your embryo, but when you hopefully fall pregnant that cervix needs keeping an eye on”
To say i’ve had a battle on my hands is an understatement. My booking in Midwife was really kind and said it’d be checked by a Consultant at 12, 16 and 20 weeks.
At my 12 week scan, it wasn’t a Consultant that checked it, it was a Sonographer. She gave a measurement of 31mm but said my cervix was poorly visualised. I then saw a Consultant who said no further action was required, that measurement was fine and that was the end of it. I wasn’t happy and still pushed for another scan. The 16 week one never came to fruition, but the Sonographer obviously scanned me abdominally at my 20w one and said she’d take a look at the cervix. She told me it was 41mm. I said it wasn’t possible, and that internal was obviously the most accurate way to check, so maybe that’s why it wasn’t what I expected. She called another Sonographer in who looked at the images and said “Yes, 41mm. Sign it off”
I pushed to see, and be scanned by a Consultant because this Harley Street guy knows what he’s talking about and it’s in my email from him that it needs checking, it’s shorter than he’d like and that’s even before a pregnancy.
After lots of eye rolling and sarky comments, I was given an appointment yesterday with a Consultant. She was absolutely fabulous, so reassuring and agreed that it needed properly looking at. Lo and behold it’s 27mm, she deemed it “borderline” There’s also funnelling. I’m not really clued up on that but Google tells me it’s not great. She put me on progesterone straight away and i’ll stay on it until 34 weeks. She wants to see me next Friday and if it’s shortened any more then we’ll have to see if a stitch is required.
This has all been a massive shock to me because my last 2 babies were carried to term. But it could be that the D&C caused this issue. Or maybe a short cervix is my norm, but the more babies you have, the riskier it can be. Either way, I’m terrified!
I would say, if you can afford it, absolutely have a private cervical scan - But I don’t want to scare anyone by saying that!! I’m just super cautious.
I keep feeling so much pressure down there, and discomfort. Not sure if that’s normal or cervix related?!!