Heart Shape Womb (Bicornuate uterus)

[Honeysucklelanegirl]

Hi ,
Hope every one is well.
I was going to post this in my private forum but thought maybe other people have this and would like to share their experience etc of this.....

I have just been to the hospital for a scan after having a m/c earlier in the year.(I didn't even know I was pregnant/was not ttc. Went to Doctor with a bad back!)

Anyway I have just been told every thing looks fine but I do have a heart shape womb.

I was doing a sway for a girl so was wondering if this may effect it. Are more girls conceived with this problem?
Also any one else who has this and had children did you have a lot of problems with the pregnancy? I Was reading up on it on the internet. There seems to be quite a bit on it but I like to know peoples real experiences. Are there really more problems when you have a heart shape womb?
Thanks x

[atomic sagebrush]

So sorry for your loss.

I am unaware of any data about gender ratio of offspring with this condition.

It really does seem to make it harder to sustain pregnancy and can cause other issues, I am hoping and praying that you are able to overcome this and have a happy healthy pregnancy.

[Honeysucklelanegirl]

Hi, Hope all is well.
I have been reading up on this condition on and off today. I did find an article that said Women who have this tend to have more girls. A lot of the things I read said it is harder to get pregnant, your more likely to have complications, m/c etc.On the plus side Women can still carry full term /be fine and have no problems so I guess I will just have to wait and see. Im just pleased they didn't find anything nasty on the scan !x

[atomic sagebrush]

Link?????

[Honeysucklelanegirl]

I am usless with computers so I copied and paste(I don't know how to do a link)


An Esp Pediatr. 1998 Feb;48(2):159-62.[Epidemiological aspects of children of women with bicornuate uterus]. [Article in Spanish]Martínez-Frías ML, Bermejo Sánchez E, Rodríguez-Pinilla E, Martínez Santana S, Paisán Grisolía L, Egüés Jimeno J, Arroyo Carrera I, Blanco García M, López Soler JA, Martín Bermejo M, Gairi Tahull JM, Moral García A, Galán Gómez E, Frías JL.SourceECEMC, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense, Madrid.AbstractBACKGROUND: Most published papers on women with a bicornuate uterus analyze their fertility problems, as well as certain pregnancy complications. We have not found any epidemiological study on the infants of mothers with this uterine malformation. Only in some papers a reference is made about the relationship of maternal bicornuate uterus with congenital deformations and disruptions in their infants.PATIENTS AND METHODS: Using data from the Spanish Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECEMC), which has a case-control methodology, some characteristics in a series of 26,945 malformed infants, such as birth weight, sex, gestational age, umbilical cord length, placental weight and maternal age, were analyzed by separating infants of mothers with normal uterus and those of mothers with a bicornuate uterus.RESULTS: Results showed that women with a bicornuate uterus have more daughters than sons and an increased risk for intrauterine growth retardation and prematurity with respect to infants of mothers with a normal uterus. On the other hand, the risk of having an infant with congenital defects is higher for women with a bicornuate uterus than for those with a normal uterus.CONCLUSIONS: Pregnancies of women with a bicornuate uterus have to be considered at risk since they have more risk for complications and for having an infant with congenital defects, premature birth and with intrauterine growth retardation.PMID: 9577024 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Publication Types, MeSH TermsPublication TypesEnglish AbstractResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov'tMeSH TermsCase-Control StudiesCongenital Abnormalities/epidemiology*FemaleFetal Growth Retardation/epidemiology*HumansInfant, NewbornInfant, PrematureMalePregnancySex FactorsUterus/abnormalities*LinkOut - more resources

[atomic sagebrush]

Ok based on this, my suspicion would be that female pregnancies, because they need less nutrients than male pregnancies do from moment of conception, are more likely to be the ones that make it and male pg are more likely to be lost. Male babies are just more vulnerable in any situation where things are less than ideal and this would be no exception.

Whereas if the study had described the causes or if there was some unique hormonal signature or issues that went along with it, I would think hmmm maybe women with this condition are also more likely to conceive girls vs. boys.

So it's not necessarily a matter of making you more likely to conceive a girl, you are prob. the same as everyone else in that regard, but may be more likely to be able to successfully carry a girl to term vs. a boy.

[Honeysucklelanegirl]

I had never heard of anything like this till today. I love to research things (especially things that I never knew about.) Some of the things I have read are a little bit scary but I am still going to TTC. I read women can still have normal pregnancies with this condition as well so I may be lucky. Thank you for all your time on here by the way.The essays and answers to questions are so interesting and make sense! x

[lilian]

This is much later but for anyone new looking at this thread. A friend has this condition and delivered two heatlhy boys. Both came before due date but still 36+ weeks. Doing great and had no issues conceiving either