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Re: cerclage

From: Melissa (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:43:44 -0600 (CST)

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I am not a doctor, but have tons of experience with doc's thinking I had an incompetent cervix causing the delivery of my first baby. With the second baby, my OB wanted to do a cerclage to avoid early delivery. Well, my history was such that it was premature labor with the first baby, not an IC cervix. I denied the procedure after seeing a perinatologist (I hope that is the kind of specialist you saw, if it was I am surprised they checked manually for cervix length). They should have done a vaginal ultrasound for an accurate look at the cervix. Now, for your follow up ultrasound, did they look at the cervix with vaginal ultrasound, or did they they look at it through the tummy while looking at the baby? If they measured it that way, it isn't too reliable. If I were you I would demand to see a perinatologist (maternal fetal specialist) and have a vaginal ultrasound to determine what is really going on with the cervix, if anything.

Good luck,

-- Melissa

At Sun, 30 Mar 2003, enry wrote: > >At eighteen weeks pregnant I had a bleed then some spotting, a week >later same thing. My doctor did not seem concerned finally I asked to >see a specialist. I went to see one and he did an internal and >immediatly booked me an or for an emergency cerclage, he said that a >normal cervix is 4cm long and mine was 2cm. Five days later I went to >have an ultra sound the technician advised me that my cervix was five cm >long and there was no sign of an incompetent cervix. My question is if >I was mis-diagnosed will having the cerclage be a detriment to my >pregnancy?

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Melissa Sparlin
mom to Lydia 24 weeker 2/26/00
1 lb 9 oz, 11.5 inches long
mom to Andrew fullterm 4/19/01
7 lb 11 oz, 20 3/4 inches long
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