Retroverted uterus

Submitted by louiseds on June 19, 2008 - 2:13am
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Hi All

I am wondering if any Members with retroverted uterus have experienced their uterus moving to anteverted since beginning WW work?

I thought it was an abherration when I discovered that my cervix had moved from the back wall of the vagina to the front wall, probably some time in the last couple of years.

Ellenb80's recent topic where she raised the idea that a uterus could be severely anteverted made me wonder how mobile a uterus can be, and how a uterus could get into such a strange orientation (I guess it is strange? Maybe it is normal).

Mine is indeed now anteverted, which is the first time it ever has been, to my knowledge, since starting pelvic exams in my mid-20's. I don't know about before that, but I suspect it may have been that way since my body changed from child to woman (which is when I started butt and tummy tucking in). It always went back to anteverted (WRONG! SHOULD READ RETROVERTED) within 24 hours of birthing (three times).

I just went and lay down on my back in pelvic exam position, bore down (which made my bladder come to the introitus and the rectocele bulge but the cervix stayed up), wriggled my pelvis around in the air, stood up again in WW posture, and bore down in slouched posture too. In all positions my cervix remains on the front wall. After all those gymnastics my cervix is about 1 1/2 knuckles inside my introitus, which is a full knuckle further up than normal.

What is happening here? Could I respectfully ask that willing Members with retroverted uterus, or who have had it in the past, to try the same thing and tell me what you find? I am particularly interested to know whether others have ever experienced a retroverted uterus turning itself back to anteverted, and whether or not it was related to WW work.

I don't know that retroverted uterus has ever actually been correlated statistically with infertility, heavy bleeding, prolapse or any other women's problems, but I am interested to know what WW users have found. Maybe it is all just a wives' tale, like redheads being hot-tempered.

Myth busted??

Cheers

Louise

Christine

June 19, 2008 - 9:16am

Louise, this is just such great news. From the beginning, I have said this work “should” fix a retroverted uterus – because of the simple biomechanics of what is happening. Someone asked me the other day whether the work would fix stage one prolapse. The easy answer is, Yes!

However, how about vaginal walls stretched into the mature, post-baby, post-modern (lol) vagina shape – which would be slightly bulgy in front and back. Should this even be considered “stage 1” anything? I’m doubting it.

The uterus is really so very critical in all of this – that yours, Louise, would pull so far forward after all its been through (your nightly rolls with your honey-bunny probably have helped immensely in that regard!) is just so encouraging. I Do have the (formerly) “hanging outside” uterus that has been described a number of times through the years here – and that I described in the first edition of STWW – and am so pleased with how it has tried so hard to move forward and the progress we have made over time. I still have hope of it someday being two knuckles up. Why should we ever stop trying? The uterus is the top-piece of the umbrella holding all the rest in shape. Even when prolapsed and the umbrella popped out the wrong way, it is still an umbrella. When the top-piece is missing, the umbrella collapses into something unrecognizable.

Almost all of us have been told at one time or another that we have a "tipped" uterus. The anteverted uterus (forward and pressed down) is what nature sets us up for by the way our spine bends under the forces of gravity and our breath. As conscious adults, we still have gravity and our breath - but we can also continuously come back to that natural shape throughout all our days.

Not many women are as observant of their body as you, and I am so appreciative that you have helped confirm this long-theorized point.

Cheers,

Christine

louiseds

June 19, 2008 - 9:45am

Hi Christine and All

I just realised that in paragraph 4 of my post I said, "It always went back to anteverted within 24 hours of birthing (three times)." This is wrong.

What I meant to write was that it always went back to *retroverted* within 24 hours of birthing (three times)." Sorry about this basic error in my post.

Louise

alemama

June 19, 2008 - 1:20pm

I was 11 months postpartum with my first baby and about 6 weeks pregnant with my second when I went for my first prenatal visit. The midwife told me I had a tipped uterus. I had no clue what she was talking about and just went on with life- but I know for a fact now that I do not have a tipped uterus anymore. So ya. I have a mature -post 3 babies vagina- and a rectocele but my uterus sits well forward. And I know it is from this work. That is why I said that I firmly believe that at hanging out uterus can go back in and stay up. I really believe it.