Bicornuate Uterus

[Adriana]

Firstly i would like to express my deepest sympathy to those who have lost one of life precious gifts my heart really goes out to you. I have recently find out at 6 weeks pregnant with my first child that i have a bicornute uterus and was told by the lady performing the ultrasound that women with this abnormality often have problems with infertiltiy and miscarriges. I was also told the my uterus's were symetrical/equal in size and implation had occured in the left side. I am curouis to wether other user's new if there's uterus's were equal in size and if not did they find that complications occured when implantation occured in the smaller sized uterus?
I pray to god that i have a succesful pregnancy and a healthy baby is delivered at the end

[seeker]

I also have a bicornuate uterus of equal size and am 10 weeks pregnant. I've scoured the internet for information but there are so little studies done on our condition and most of the studies have such small numbers you have to wonder about the accuracy. My pregnancy is also on the left side. I actually had ivf and the FS implanted on the left so I was expecting that. The second trimester is the scary part for us so I'm just keeping my fingers crossed and hoping I'm one of the lucky 50% whose bicornuate pregnancy makes it.

[Adriana]

This is all so scary. I went to my first ultrasound and thourght that all i had to worry about was making sure the baby was in-utero then they tell me i had bicornuate uterus and now i just try not to think of the possibility of miscarrying especially in the second trimester would be just devestating. I was wondering if enybody knew why there is so many risk in the second part of the pregnancy? I was hanging out till the end of first trimester now i will extending that until the day of delivery i think would be a more realistic plan . Well i have my second ultrasound tommorow to hear the heartbeat and hope in 7 months time i would be able to hold my precouis little gift . I was also wondering how margeo went with her procedure? Seeker hope you don't mind my asking but have you had troubles with fertility due to your uterus to be resorting to IVF? Well lady's i only wish that we could be all those lucky 50% and hope that we have happy story's to report in future posting's.

[seeker]

A true Bicornuate uterus shouldn't cause infertility but rather just problems with carrying the baby because everything is half the normal size and we can have a weak cervix. I had IVF after trying unsuccessfully for a year and a half to get pregnant the old fashioned way. (I'm also 38 so the clock was ticking!) The FS wouldn't give me Clomid or any fertility drugs to try due to the risk of twins so it was basically IVF or nothing.

Anyway I went to my OB today who gave me a good lecture about staying positive and not worrying too much because it is not something you can control and he said even though I'm 38 now I still have a couple of years to keep trying so not to obsess about it. I am going to go for more ultrasounds than normal though to monitor my cervix for weakness after about 15 weeks so make sure you insist on that. If they find a weakness they can stitch it up.

Keep in touch everyone - It's unlikely we'll meet anyone in real life with this condition