Cervical prolapse

Pinkstar67 · 2025-11-05T20:07:32+00:00

Hi guys, I have a grade 3 cervical prolapse. I’m scared it’s gonna get worse during pregnancy and delivery I’m 15 weeks pregnant I’ve already had one child already four years ago. I didn’t realize I had a prolapse until recently. The NHS are useless. They’re telling me there’s nothing they can really do at this stage, but I can’t just sit back and do nothing can I

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Hopingrae · 05/11/2025 21:31

I'm not sure if this is the same thing, I had a grade 3/4 uterine prolapse in my second full term pregnancy last year which appeared at around 14 weeks pregnancy and went at 17 weeks (due to growing baby lifting my uterus higher into my abdomen - I thought it would get worse but its normal for it to improve later in pregnancy ironically). Did you have assisted delivery with your first? I had episiotomy and ventose with DC1 and apparently that's a really big risk factor for prolapse (which no one told me until it happened!). I saw an amazing women's health physio privately and was also referred to nhs women's health physio. It was drilled into me to do my pelvic floor exercises religiously which I've done ever since using the squeezy app. I was also told vaginal birth in itself doesn't make it worse. No issues post birth and I'm pregnant currently with DC3 and no issues so far at least. I'd definitely see a women's health physio if you can for advice, made such a difference to me and also really reassured me as I found it so worrying when it happened and felt like gp just shrugged their shoulders! Hope that helps x

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Pinkstar67 · 06/11/2025 12:24

Hopingrae · 05/11/2025 21:31

I'm not sure if this is the same thing, I had a grade 3/4 uterine prolapse in my second full term pregnancy last year which appeared at around 14 weeks pregnancy and went at 17 weeks (due to growing baby lifting my uterus higher into my abdomen - I thought it would get worse but its normal for it to improve later in pregnancy ironically). Did you have assisted delivery with your first? I had episiotomy and ventose with DC1 and apparently that's a really big risk factor for prolapse (which no one told me until it happened!). I saw an amazing women's health physio privately and was also referred to nhs women's health physio. It was drilled into me to do my pelvic floor exercises religiously which I've done ever since using the squeezy app. I was also told vaginal birth in itself doesn't make it worse. No issues post birth and I'm pregnant currently with DC3 and no issues so far at least. I'd definitely see a women's health physio if you can for advice, made such a difference to me and also really reassured me as I found it so worrying when it happened and felt like gp just shrugged their shoulders! Hope that helps x

Hiya, thank you for your response. Can you let me know if your prolapse improved or got worse after delivery?
I didn’t have an assisted Birth, but I just had a natural birth with no intervention just pushing it did take about an hour and a half to get her out as I always was struggling to push, but there was no interventions

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Hopingrae · 06/11/2025 13:14

@Pinkstar67 No it didn't get worse and I've had no problems with it since birth (which I definitely think is related to pelvic floor exercises for me).