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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?
 busymum wrote:
I think the way I carry babies is more to do with my own body actually. I have a suspected retroverted uterus (tilts back) and carry my babies quite 'close' ie towards the back. I think I have always carried slightly low. Definiteyl lower than what Emma said anyway  |
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: 23 May 2007 at 3:47pm |
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*googly google*
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Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:50pm |
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Hrmmm... funnily enough, google bought up one of Ginger's old topics. Very interesting.
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Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:55pm |
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.
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Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:55pm |
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Freakin' heck, just realised I am conducting a whole discussion by myself!
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Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:55pm |
Wasn't I typing quick enough for you Nikki? 
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Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:56pm |
Not anymore! But at least we snapped three at 3.55, that's pretty cool!  LOL
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Posted: 23 May 2007 at 3:56pm |
Ooo thankfully Teresa saved me!
Thanks. Will keep googling.
And yep to the sex *ahem* 
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Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:01pm |
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 ). It showed more when I was carrying Josh as he wsa a big boy (9lb 4) and there really wasn't much to me, I looked pregnant from the front but if you looked at me from behind I wasn't pregnant.
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).
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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:03pm |
mummy_becks wrote:
My mum has one as well so we could say she passed it down to me (like everything else I have wrong with me) |
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.
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Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:06pm |
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.
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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.
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Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:12pm |
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:20pm |
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.
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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 
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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!
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Posted: 23 May 2007 at 4:26pm |
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).
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Posted: 23 May 2007 at 6:04pm |
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