where's my cervix?

I sincerely doubt you will do any harm or make thing worse. You will feel if something does not feel right and, most likely, stop doing it :) One of the many benefits of exploring your own body vs someone else doing it.
Not sure of your exact prolapses but I am guessing everything in there feels soft and full and crowded. Your cervix will be the only thing that feels a bit knobby, like the end of your nose or softly ridged like your lips. It might take a bit of time to see what is what, but if nothing else maybe find it through the process of elimination? Figure out what is your bladder and where it's boundaries are, find your bowel and where it seems to be. Your cervix will be somewhere near those two :) Not sure if this applies to uterine prolapses but often the cervix is WAY farther back towards the sacrum than people anticipate.
Really hope someone with better ideas comes along!

Feel for a raised doughnut shape, about 2cm in diameter with a hole in the middle. You should be able to run the tip of your finger right around it. However, if you're still breastfeeding and oestrogen is low, it might be less obvious, I can't remember.

If your uterusis anteverted (normal) you will feel it coming out of the front wall, pointing backwards. If it is retroverted it feel like it is coming out of the back wall, and probably pointing upwards. Retroversion causes the front wall will feel quite smooth and the back wall might be quite wrinkly. There is another position, an exaggeration of anteverted, where your uterus can come over the top of the bladder and in front of it, and your bladder will be pushed backwards by it, ie you would probably have a big cystocele for this to happen. In this case the cervix might be unreachable.

Learning Billings Method or Natural Family Planning will teach you all about your cervix and the changes it undergoes during your menstrual cycle, eg The hole in the middle becomes bigger around ovulation, and the cervix is more pronounced too.

Louise

I can see my cervix without any trouble. It looks like it's right under my urethra. And then there's a big bulge (falling out of the vagina, just a little) right below that, which I think is my bladder. The cervix is a dark red ring. Kind of surprising.

Oh, hello cervix, I wasn't expecting to see you here! ;-)

Having a bit of difficulty conceptualising this. OK, do you mean you are in the position described in the Self Exam in Saving the Wholewoman?

I've forgotten now what that position is. I was sitting on the potty and just held up the mirror and checked.

I did do an exam after a shower, standing up, but I wasn't using a mirror. I was just trying to figure out how the prolapsed part felt. It had ridges on it, but it was on the front side, not the back part.

Looking, particularly with a mirror, can be confusing at the best of times. I would try it just feeling, with your eyes closed, so you can associate where and what you feel with your fingers, with what and where you can feel inside your vagina. You can 'feel' posterior and anterior, dorsal and ventral, and left and right, and then you can relate it to a diagram or photo. You will find heaps of photos on the net, even if you have to reduce your security level. If it is high it can hide potentially useful pictures because the word 'vagina' is in the keywords for the image/page.

It is also possible that the position of your cervix varies. Try a few more times, and see if it is always the same. It is your body. You have a right to know where all its bits are at any time. ;-)

L

I can see my cervix right at the opening in the evening hours and towards front top of the cervix something is with layers, I am scared that might be my bladder (I did not think I also have a bladder prolapse arter uterus now??. or it could be a vaginal wall??In the morning things are bit upwards as day goes on start coming lower. But I log in to this forum everyday and a constant motivation from Chisten, Louise, Judy and all of you keep me moving on.

If I understand you properly, the 'something with layers' is probably just the normal vaginal rugae (wrinkles) on the anterior wall. Does this make some sense? If so, this is good, because it means the bladder is not pushing them out and straightening them, not when you are in this position anyway. The position you are in is very significant because it determines the direction that gravity is acting.

Louise

LOL! Truth is indeed sometimes stranger than fiction! If you want to read Christine's description of the pelvic organs and how they behave, put "bags of Jello" into the Search box.

L