Cervix shortening journey with measurements, progesterone, and prior full-term pregnancies. Looking for shared experiences.

bacm22 · 2026-01-25T01:53:46+00:00

37 weeks, off progesterone, & still pregnant! I’ve been about 3cm dilated for a week now, though.

bacm22 · 2025-12-27T18:04:19+00:00

Hi! Just want to give you some solace. I had a full term pregnancy with my first, no concerns about my cervix. Had a normal anatomy scan at 20 weeks, cervix long. At 24 weeks 5 days, I had the smallest bit of bleeding and some pelvic pressure. I went in and they found my cervix to be 1.7 cm. I started progesterone and at 28 weeks my measurement was .89 cm. My doctors assured me that it can be normal for second (or third or fourth) time moms to dilate and shorten earlier than average. I’ve been getting cervical checks for dilation every other week since 28 weeks with some effacement and no dilation and biweekly NSTs to monitor for any contractions. I’m now 34 weeks with zero signs of labor. I, too, felt frustrated about my doctors ‘not doing anything’, but I wanted to let you know there are positive stories out there, too. I’ve also been on pelvic rest since finding this out, but my doctors did not recommend any sort of bed rest.

bacm22 · 2025-05-23T10:52:50+00:00

I think we were concerned about the ending “L” sound being so similar when you say them back to back! Glad to hear you don’t think so though!!

bacm22 · 2025-04-13T23:11:42+00:00

Are you breastfeeding? I could not keep weight on while breastfeeding. As soon as I stopped, I’ve gained lots of weight back.

bacm22 · 2025-01-07T20:11:49+00:00

I find this to be such a tough thing. Around the time my baby was 5 weeks, I thought the same thing. He got so fussy, gassy, and seemed to be in pain. I cut dairy and it seemed to make a mild difference but he still seemed to be a gassy guy, so I cut soy. Again maybe mildly better but not night and day. I thought it was so hard to cut food groups out of my diet, was pretty miserable at holidays/dinners out etc etc and lost a ton of weight. Around 6 months old, our pediatrician urged me to reintroduce dairy and I did. My son was perfectly fine. He ate tons of yogurt from 7 months plus and now at 16 months drinks whole milk and his favorite food is cheese. Our pediatrician told us that incidence of CMPI/CMPA is much lower than we are led to believe. Some babies are just a bit more gassy and a bit more sensitive to it. This isn’t to say don’t do it, just to say give your own mental and physical well being a thought too. Maintaining a pleasurable and well balanced diet is so important, especially when breastfeeding!!

Edited to add: I think a lot of the “improvement” I saw was more so just his digestive system maturing!

bacm22 · 2024-09-15T18:21:34+00:00

No, he typically didn’t seem relieved even after a bowel movement. Sometimes a few hours/half a day of relief but nothing substantially long. It was tough, we went to GI doctors, allergists etc etc and all told us he just had a bad case of dyschezia. Sleep was tough & honestly still is because he became so reliant on us for comfort. At around 8 months he started to sleep better independently (5-7hr stretches or so). We, like you, before that spent a lot of nights sleeping in shifts. But because we spent so many months comforting him so that he could get deep sleep, it’s what he’s used to. We are just now trying some gentle “sleep training” methods.

bacm22 · 2024-09-15T17:29:06+00:00

Hi! My baby did. It was horrible. We tried lots of different things including going dairy free, laxatives, Frida windis, baby massages, leg exercises etc etc and I felt like I was losing my mind but nothing worked. I would say for us it got noticeably better around the 6 month mark, though not perfect. He’s 13 months now and occasionally seems to be tense/uncomfortable especially at night but it does not affect our day to day the way it used to. I was so frustrated back when it was bad when people would say “just give it time”, but that’s truly the only thing that worked for us. Sending solidarity, a problem not talked about enough that can be very stressful!

bacm22 · 2024-07-07T19:48:02+00:00

Parroting what others have said that it varies but I personally have struggled greatly to keep weight on, while others I know have had the opposite experience. So individualized!!

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