Cervical suture and stronger cervix?

[Deedles]

I have recently given birth to my 3rd DS and I am so amazed that It was such an easy and uncomplicated pregnancy.

The reason I say this is, with my first pregnancy everything was going great or so I thought.
It wasn't until 20 weeks when I started feeling period like cramps and after hours of being in pain headed for the hospital, only to find out that bub was on his way too soon.

The doctors put it down to just plain old bad luck and that my next pregnancy should go fine.
So a year later I find out that I am pregnant again and get up to 20 weeks without any problems and then made it to 22 weeks and started to feel a bit more confident about the pregnancy. Then I went for an appointment with an Ob who asked me why I hadn't gotten a scan of my cervix as they thought it could have been a big factor in why I delivered at 20 wks. So off I go to get the scan and when I went the lady said it was looking rather short.

So the next day they rush me into theatre and put in a cervical suture and I made it to 37 wks when they removed it. Then went into labour at 38 wks.

Now with my last pregnancy I was told early on that I would need the stitch put in again and I should get a scan every 2 weeks to see how it was looking.
After 12 weeks I saw a different Ob and she said my cervix was looking great and that they would put off placing the suture as it isn't even proven that it will be effective.
I ended up making it all the way to 38 weeks with no intervention at all and at my last cervical scan at 28 weeks showed that my cervix was actually longer?

Can the suture actually help strengthen up the cervix? I am just confused as to having a short cervix for 2 pregnancies but not for the 3rd?

[crumpet]

i cant help with answering ur question but ill be following this as ive got cervical incompatance so will be having a stitch when i end up UTD..

[*Beema*]

I don't know if the suture actually strengthens the cervix or not, but am intrested in this thread as I am currently being scanned for an IC, I am already on the low end of the scale, first scan was 2.5cm and the second was 2.79cm, not very good for the start of a pregnancy, so hoping that there is a good length in the next scan next week.

What cervix lengths were you getting at each of your scans?

[crumpet]

I don't know if the suture actually strengthens the cervix or not, but am intrested in this thread as I am currently being scanned for an IC, I am already on the low end of the scale, first scan was 2.5cm and the second was 2.79cm, not very good for the start of a pregnancy, so hoping that there is a good length in the next scan next week.

What cervix lengths were you getting at each of your scans?

beema, not sure if u meant me or not but at 12weeks i measured 2.5cm like u....
i was put on bed rest for 2 weeks and ended up at 3.5cm.... so the bed rest was relaxed but still the "be careful" orders...
follow up scan at 18weeks and had hit 3.4cm so OB was happy....
when in at 20weeks and had dropped back to 2.4cm..... full bed rest again...
21 weeks had a off day called OB and went to the office and sure enough my cervix had started to give in and my waters were buldging.....into hospy on total bed rest, no getting up for anything, ended up with an infection and delivered at 22weeks.....

my OB has advised my cervix is in a cruddy state.... he said he would have expected ot see someone who had had 6-7 terminations, or cone biospsies done or multiple D&C's with a cervix like mine but ive had none of that......im just one of those unlucky ppl with a cr@p cervix.....

ill be having a stitch put in at 13 weeks when i get preg and then removed at 37weeks....

HTH helps

feel free to PM me if u need to ask anything!

good luck for ur scan hope all is travelling along ok!!!!

[*Beema*]

Thankyou for sharing your measurements crumpet, I can't imagine how scary it must have been for you It really shows how quickly things can change

My OB is concerned that I may have an IC as went into labour early and I progressed so quickly with DD, with minimal pain I was 7-8cm on arrival to hospital which was 45 minutes after my contractions started, waters had broken 45 min prior to ctx starting. She is concerned that I won't make it in time..... so it is just a bit of a waiting game for me, as we want to prolong the pregnancy as long as we can and she wants to do the suture between 12-16 weeks, but as I still have retained "product" from the loss of Flicker's Twin we are in limbo as we can do the suture if it is required while it is still there And on top of that I have a subseptate uterus which is known for premature births - gee got a lot going for me to get to term

[crumpet]

Thankyou for sharing your measurements crumpet, I can't imagine how scary it must have been for you It really shows how quickly things can change

My OB is concerned that I may have an IC as went into labour early and I progressed so quickly with DD, with minimal pain I was 7-8cm on arrival to hospital which was 45 minutes after my contractions started, waters had broken 45 min prior to ctx starting. She is concerned that I won't make it in time..... so it is just a bit of a waiting game for me, as we want to prolong the pregnancy as long as we can and she wants to do the suture between 12-16 weeks, but as I still have retained "product" from the loss of Flicker's Twin we are in limbo as we can do the suture if it is required while it is still there And on top of that I have a subseptate uterus which is known for premature births - gee got a lot going for me to get to term

no worries hun hope it helped slightly......

yeah things happened very quickly but full credit to my OB who did everything he could to prolong things......

oh wow its all very full on for u isnt it?!?!?! i hope they can sort something out for u!!
they cant get the retained product out can they?