my take on having a bicornuate womb (Pregnancy Complications)

Member Name: staceyrm2207

Product:	Pregnancy Complications
Date:	17/02/09 (59 review reads)
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I would say I had quite a good pregnancy, although I will admit I didnt enjoy it as much as I should have!! my childs father and I split wen I was 3mnths pregnant and from then on I carried on all on my own! at the beginning I had the morning sickness feeling but was never actually sick, which can be worse sometimes. this might sound strange, and I swear its true, I only seemed to have the sicky feeling when I was down at my ex's family home, as soon as I'd near his town it would start, even while we were getting on.

towards the end of my pregnancy whilst at an antinatal appointment my midwife suspected my baby might be breech, but said it was nothing to worry about and that she would keep an eye on me. at my following appointment she again said there was a possibility he was breech, but she couldnt quite make out which way he was led, so I was booked to have a scan on wednesday the 31st of january 2007, 3 weeks before my due date. I woke up the day before my scan and felt awful, I thought a walk would cure it so walked to meet my mother from work, a miles walk and I still wasnt feelin any better. I had a bath to try and relax myself, then my mother made me eat a little food, which came straight back up. 7pm that night my waters broke.. 3weeks early on my first pregnancy and I was scared, I didnt no what to expect.

I got to the hospital by about 8.45pm was left hanging around for a while, got checked out, I WAS in labour, it wasnt a false alarm yay, so I thought! I was told that my babies head was down I was 2cm dilated, there was nothing they could do for me at the hospital I was jus to go home and wait. so I did & went straight to bed. at about 2.15am I was woken, I was having contractions, they were coming 2 minutes apart and getting stronger each time and with each contraction came the sickness and not just feeling it, I was litterally being sick with every contraction, it was horrible. a bath made me feel worse, in the end my sister and mum decided I had to go back to hospital.

by the time we arrived back at the hospital it was now around 6.15, again I was put in a room and didnt see a midwife for atleast half hour. then when I finally got seen I was checked and told I was 6cm and there was bad news... MY BABY WAS BREECH!! I was then checked again and again by a number of different midwives, one of them even stated her 20 year career that it was my little boys head she could feel. the first midwife who checked me went with her instincts and arranged for me to have an emergency caesarean, within minutes I had numerous doctors around me, taking blood, inserting a drip, takin blood pressure, shavin where they was to cut etc. I was pretty scared by now, everything was a blurr.

I continued to be sick, even whilst led on the operating table.

my little boy was born at 9.50am weighin 8lb 1oz, and was he breech???
YES he actually was breech, the surgeon actually found that I have a bicornuate womb, also known as a double womb or sometimes called a heart shaped womb which was preventing my unborn baby from getting into the delivery position. my condition is often hireditory but neither my mum or my grandmothers had it.

during my caesarean I lost 3 litres of blood so had to have a blood transfusion, I also had to have a balloon filled with saline inserted in my womb to help stop the bleed and also help it to contract and shrink.

I dint feel human, after an hour or so of feeling whoozy all I wanted to do was get up and hold my baby, the little boy id carried for 9months and stil not had the chance to meet. at 4.20pm in the afternoon after askin a nurse, I finally got to hold my little boy and didnt want to let him go!!

After finding out I had a bicornuate womb I wanted to know what one of these was, another name ive heard it given is a womb with two horns. I scrawled internet sights searching, got a few answers, little did I know until this point, I was so very lucky my little boy survived, one website described my condition as a common cause of miscarraige and premature birth. It can be picked up on a regular scan so how did they not pick up on this at the 3 scans I had?? I still do not fully understand what it is that I have, and dont suppose I will until I have another baby and get to quiz a midwife on what it is. I now have the fear that if i do ever get pregnant again, would that baby be lucky enough to survive the pregnancy like my first baby was.

Summary: a pretty scary thing when you dont no what it is!