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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“Where’s Your Cervix…?”
“Where’s your cervix?” -OB said after inserting a speculum. Removed it and inserted one that was thinner and longer, then said, “Wow, there is NO way a baby is coming out of that!” This occurred at a 12 week prenatal pap smear.
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The Deranged Housewife had this to say,
Feb 15, 2010 @ 6:01 am (Quote)
*Crickets*….
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Lindsey Carr-Ruck had this to say,
Feb 15, 2010 @ 5:48 pm (Quote)
I’m usually in the camp giving a big ol’ thumbs down to thoughtless comments, but this particular comment may actually be clinically accurate.
Sounds like the pt has an android pelvis…
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Sheva Reply:
February 16th, 2010 at 8:21 pm (Quote)
From the post it sounds more like the doc was talking about her cervix, not her pelvic outlet.
You don’t do pelvimetry with a speculum, it’s done with the fingers.
Also, so what if she has an android pelvis? Approximately 1/3 of women have it, and they can birth just fine. At 12 weeks gestation there is no way to predict how much the musculature and ligaments of her pelvis will relax in the next 28 weeks, nor how big her baby’s head will be. Additionally, one cannot predict how much her pelvis will open during the birth, nor how much her baby’s head will mold while in the birth canal/pelvic outlet.
Also, knowing she has an android pelvis just means that her caregiver needs to think of birthing positions that allow for maximum expansion of her pelvis. (Squatting opens the pelvic outlet by as much as 20%.)
The major characteristic of an android pelvis is a prominent sacrum. Her caregivers can minimize the issues this can cause by helping her to give birth in an upright position or on all fours.
I think that it is not so much the woman herself is high risk, it is the care she gets (or doesn’t get) that puts her in that classification.
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Hey guys, this was my post. I thank you guys for all the comments.
I had a C-Section with my 1st in 2004, and I didn’t really understand why. This doc told me that at 12 weeks with my 2nd baby (who I had via C-Section January 27th 2010!).
It was pretty messed up to say, although I do know why now. My cervix is very narrow and almost vertical. I have a severely tilted uterus also.
I was checked a lot during my daughters pregnancy and none but him could reach it with their fingers. None of the L&D nurses could, or the nurses at his office.
I definitely didn’t like the way he worded it, even though it confirmed my suspicions of what happened with my first birthing experience…
I do not dilate more than a fingertip…my 1st labor was 16 hours long, my water broke naturally before I went to the hospital, and I had pitocin to help my dilation, which never happened…
I guess my doctor was right, sadly. There’s no way a baby is coming out of me the natural way 
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Kathy Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 6:43 pm (Quote)
Perhaps he was right; perhaps not. I’ve read plenty of stories of women who thought *for sure* that they couldn’t give birth vaginally, and were able to. Often it had to do with waiting much longer for labor to soften and open the cervix — like days instead of hours, which you may not have wanted to try, or may not have been able or allowed to do. Also, a L&D nurse just recently posted about cervical scar tissue sometimes keeping the cervix from dilating, and needing to be broken up before dilation can happen. If you’ve had any sort of procedures done on or through your cervix (D&C, LEEP, etc.) you may have scar tissue that is keeping your cervix from opening.
It may not be, too — just thought I’d throw that suggestion out, just in case it could be helpful. If not — hey, I’m glad a C/s was able to help you and your babies have safe births! 
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Yes, not now!
I am planning to wait, oh, another 28 weeks or so, and then wait for it to open (naturally), and THEN the baby will come out.
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