Retroverted uterus
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Topic: Retroverted uterus
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Subject: Retroverted uterus
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:43pm
Ok, so Teresa just posted about this and it got me wondering if I have the same. Does anyone (Teresa?) know about this?
I wonder if I have something like that... would that effect the fundal height measurements the midwife does? While I say I carried straight out front, I'm not sure all 4.26kgs was out front - midwife was worried about growth and sent me for scan, where she measured 9lbs at 38 weeks. Ya think it's a retroverted uterus??? (Still seeking explanation for this after 2.5 years!!) Andddd... what does it mean, apart from carrying 'close'? |
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:47pm
| *googly google* |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:50pm
| Hrmmm... funnily enough, google bought up one of Ginger's old topics. Very interesting. |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:55pm
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Okay what I know about retroverted (AKA tilted) uterus is:
yep the fundal measurements are low for your baby's size (I also got sent for growth scans for Briona, who at 1 day early was 8lb 4oz  )
It's not so comfy in particular sex positions that reach further than others... lol do you get what I'm saying? I can't remember all the other stuff, except that I looked into causes of retro uterus. I read something (thanks to Google) that indicated that a lot of teenage girls have retro uterus but once the body completes puberty (or thereabouts?) then it should come right. Failing that, it should tilt forward for the 2nd & 3rd trimester of pg and stay there afterwards. BUT I suspect that mine tilts back again after pg, or stays tilted lol. Mummy_Becks said she has this I think, if she doesn't see this thread you could PM her. -------------  |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:55pm
| Freakin' heck, just realised I am conducting a whole discussion by myself! |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:55pm
Wasn't I typing quick enough for you Nikki?  ------------- |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:56pm
Not anymore! But at least we snapped three at 3.55, that's pretty cool!  LOL------------- |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:56pm
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Ooo thankfully Teresa saved me!
Thanks. Will keep googling. And yep to the sex *ahem* 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:01pm
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Yep I have this. Where do you want me to start. Yep sex can hurt and hurt alot if its not at the right angle (if you know what I mean Best way to find out is with a scan when you aren't pregnant, or by a tummy feel (thats how my dr picked it up). My mum has one as well so we could say she passed it down to me (like everything else I have wrong with me). ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:03pm
That's good of her!
Well it certainly seems like it fits... I guess it just slightly disturbs me because of the fact that when I had my termination I could have been further along than they dated (by internal). Not that it would have changed a whole lot because I still feel that I made the right decision for that point in my life. |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:06pm
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I would next time you are at your dr ask them to have a feel of your tummy to see if they can feel anything. Yeo really nice I add that to my list along with Endo, PCOS, sulphur allergy. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:10pm
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More musings... I always wondered when I found out I was pregnant with Hannah and the doc examined me (knowing full well that I believed I was only 8 weeks pregnant) that perhaps she couldn't tell I was 16 weeks from palpitating abdo... so I don't have to hate her for the rest of my life!
ETA - Of course, if I do have a check up and they say I don't have a retroverted uterus then I'll be able to go right back to hating her. Excellent. |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:12pm
| P.S. Don't think I have endo or other health related issues that go with RU... so maybe don't have it, or just got lucky. |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:18pm
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I had this when I was younger too, not sure if I still do post babies or not.
When I had smears they always had to use a children's speculum on me because of it. No idea why, something about retro uterus making it more difficult to get to? ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:18pm
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I don't think to 2 go hand in hand so you could just be lucky. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:20pm
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The other thing it does is make babies more likely to favour posterior position. Mum said all of us were posterior so I can only guess that I got it off her. I haven't actually had it confirmed though. My mw(s) has never mentioned anything, and I would have thought they (Docs) would have noticed when they did my c/s... all they said to DH was that I was tiny in there. Or something like that.
But when I read the sex thing that's what convinced me. I had actually been wondering if I always had posterior babies because of uterus shape, and stumbled on retro along the way. Apparently sex hurts more - when 'deep' - because a tilted uterus exposes [ummm can't remember what lol] and they get "banged" into
Nikki I don't think I've had anything like Endo. I mean, it makes it difficult to get pg right? But seriously I don't have major pain problems with periods or anything. ------------- |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:20pm
Hmmmm my nurse uses a small speculum on me but I thought that was just cause I was small  ------------- |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:25pm
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I mostly have back pain with periods - never had to take major painkillers... just enough to whinge about.
And I don't think Han was posterior... more slightly sideways.. you know 1/2 way between both, maybe more towards anterior. She did come out crooked tho... large bump on side of head to confirm that! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:26pm
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Endo can be on many organs in there. I have it on my ovaries, tubes, bowel and uterus, and to add to the RU mine is also upside down (if you get what I mean). Teresa, your sister should have things checked out for endo if she is taking sick leave like that as I had to do that for a while. I would agree I little bit with the posterier babes Andrew was for a while but preferred his side with his head anterier, but Josh never went posterier (I must of been lucky with him). But yeah get the dr to have a feel and they would see that way (well I did don't know if that was cos the dr knew what he was looking for). ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 6:04pm
TMI!!------------- Defending the male species since 1980 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 6:09pm
TMI??? I'm sure we've talked about more TMI than that, my DH  ------------- |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 8:09pm
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TMI nothing it TMI here ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 8:44pm
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hahahaha
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 8:44pm
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Chovy - Oh yeah, and I can't believe you opened a thread named "Retroverted uterus" - that was asking for trouble!!
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 8:54pm
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Ha! Just found this topic
I really don't know why you're surprised Nikki ... I'm famous. Didn't you know?
Oh, and I was reading your posts, wondering how long it'd take ya to realise you were talking to yourself. Lucky for busymum huh? 
Ok ..off to read what you were all on about now ... ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 9:00pm
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Yeesh ...poor Chovy. Lucky we weren't talking about cervical mucus or something
I have RU (detected as a possibilit via internal, confirmed via ultrasounds), ut didn't realise there was a link to endo? Oh, and FYI, endo doesn't necessarily make it difficult to get pg. Endo accounts for only 5% of fertility issues! I always knew I was special ... ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 9:05pm
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Ah, you are Ginger, you are
And I got the endo + RU link from googling... perhaps it's full of crap? Can't trust everything you read on the net. Wiki said that RU was often linked to underlying reproductive health problems... I'd be inclined to think even less of Wiki than general google searches. |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 10:30pm
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Lol that chovy even found this thread!!! serves him right...
cant comment otherwise - mine is a bicornuate uterus which is a whole nother ball game again!!!
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Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 24 May 2007 at 8:59am
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Hmmmm.... well that might explain the ...ahem.... sweet lovin' issues sometimes, and the fact that miss Ella never wanted to turn from her comfy (for her!) little posterior position. I just thought I had bad luck with that one! Meh - I'm still hoping it was! ------------- Andie |
Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 24 May 2007 at 9:48am
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Maybe, maybe not Nikki. It hasn't been mentioned by my specialist (either of them!) as a possible issue, but then, maybe they're just being nice to me Perhaps they just don't want to see The Ginger spontaneously combust by adding another complication to the mix!
Mum had RU and managed to pop out 5 babies in pretty short order (1 accident, then 1 planned, then 3 accidents). DH's mum has a RU and from memory (well, what she told me anyway! I wasn't there at the time ... - I did work out one day though that DH was born almost 9 months after his Dad's bday, so I harrass him about being a birthday shag, which winds him up no end ) it took about 9 months to conceive him - a RU is supposed to make it harder to conceive - but I'm not sure about his brother. I remember her saying though that she had wicked issues with the second baby sitting back, and therefore on her sciatica (sp??!) - apparently the pain was really bad.
I'm not sure about the backache and ...errr ... other issues  since I have endo, and have those anyway. I don't know if it's one or the other.------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 24 May 2007 at 11:40am
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I get a sore back at late pg but that's more to do with carrying a posterior baby than having RU... as far as I know. ------------- |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 25 May 2007 at 9:40pm
| I have one too and had no prom getting preg and both babies faced the right way. I did find sex kinda uncomfotable wen preg with Jack. I thought that once you get to a certain point in pregnancy it flips up so its normal for the rest of pregnancy? Although my mum did have 3 posterior babies and my sis has endo and pcos so maybe my whole family has it. |
Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 26 May 2007 at 8:12am
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This explains so much. When I had my miscarriageI can remember the doctor saying something about having difficulty taking swabs as my uterus was tilted back and she was finding it hard. I never thought anything of it as no one else had ever said anything to me.
But that so explains the painful sex in certain positions. ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 27 May 2007 at 10:20am
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So then... uh..... gonna ask a very personal question here and if any guys here read it I'll be so embarrassed, so Chovy you just log off right now, y'hear! I don't want you looking at me funny next time I see you at church!
Anyway,
So for those of you who had the painful sex issue in some positions, did that come right after you'd recovered from the birth?? It's been 7 & 1/2 months and I'm still waiting! Better, but not right yet. I saw the doc a few months ago and she said to just give it a little more time as my body had been through a lot. But I'm thinking things really should be all better by now. ------------- Andie |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 27 May 2007 at 11:07am
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It took a bit of time but I don't remember it being that long after I had Andrew. I had all sorts of pains after I had him but that was also the endo coming back and I had that taken out when Andrew was 9 months old. I would be going back to the dr to see whats up with that. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 27 May 2007 at 2:02pm
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Andie - before, after, during... made no difference to me. ------------- |