cervix pushing out (tmi)

I'm 9 days post partum, and I still feel a lot of pressure in my vagina. I just talked to my Dr's nurse because I noticed the discharge was starting to smell a bit, she told me as long as everything looks normal and the color doesn't change that its ok. Afterwards I went to the bathroom and when I was wiping I noticed that I could feel my cervix, so I took a mirror and looked and sure enough, its right there. I'm waiting for a call back from the nurse again, just wondering if this is normal?

No.. definitely not normal.

Sounds like a prolapse.

I have heard of this happening but don't remember what they do about it. I don't think it's exactly normal but it happens.

Quoting Jerri _:" Sounds like a prolapse."

This! I couldn't remember what it was called!

um...that could be an organ prolapsing. you probably need to be seen ASAP.

I've never heard of it I hope your ok. If doc doesn't call u back j would for to er god luck x

Quoting SmashleyBells:" I'm 9 days post partum, and I still feel a lot of pressure in my vagina. I just talked to my Dr's nurse ... [snip!] ... looked and sure enough, its right there. I'm waiting for a call back from the nurse again, just wondering if this is normal?"

WHen you say right there, you mean you can see it, not that it's actually OUT of your vagina, right?

Prolases are pretty common. They won't do anything until at least a year PP. Most women get better within that year (at least better with symptoms). I have a uterine prolapse that will mean a hysterectomy some time in the future, but it causes me few problems now so I'm putting off surgery.

They aren't dangerous, so don't freak out.

Quoting she nan igans:" WHen you say right there, you mean you can see it, not that it's actually OUT of your vagina, right? ... [snip!] ... time in the future, but it causes me few problems now so I'm putting off surgery. They aren't dangerous, so don't freak out. "

but i would think if it's so low that you can see and feel it...something needs to be done?

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Quoting SaraSaraBoBara:" but i would think if it's so low that you can see and feel it...something needs to be done?"

Nope. The only options are a physical therapy (which obviously isn't immediate), pessary (device to hold it up but deosn't fix it) or surgery. The only time they'd do a surgery this recent is with a COMPLETE prolapse. I'm talking uterus completely out of the vagina. Stage 4. Stage 3 is at the opening of the vagina, and with that there is no risk to a womans health so the surgery has more risks then the condition.

Quoting she nan igans:" Nope. The only options are a physical therapy (which obviously isn't immediate), pessary (device to ... [snip!] ... the opening of the vagina, and with that there is no risk to a womans health so the surgery has more risks then the condition. "

yeah but...what if she wanted to have sex? i mean what is the prognosis? it won't ever go away until surgery is done?
i would be freaking out...

Quoting SaraSaraBoBara:" yeah but...what if she wanted to have sex? i mean what is the prognosis? it won't ever go away until surgery is done? i would be freaking out..."

You can still have sex, even if it's at the opening of the vagina. All that means is that is slipped from it's higher postion. It will move back up.

Sometimes it gets better on it's own (this is especially true the first year PP) sometimes it does not. It may never go away, but often causes no discomfort. MANY women have some amount of prolapse and don't even know it. Unless you have symptoms or problems (pain when having sex, problems urinating, back pain) then there isn't really an issue. And usually they'll do a pessary if you are having symptoms at first.

Surgery can be resuspension or hysterectomy, but resuspenions (where the resuspend the uterus) only lasts like 5 years, so they don't like that one often. It usually happens when women are older, and is actually a LOT more commont hen people think. Women just don't get help for it or talk about it. You can have a few different types of prolapses.

Quoting SaraSaraBoBara:" yeah but...what if she wanted to have sex? i mean what is the prognosis? it won't ever go away until surgery is done? i would be freaking out..."

Me too, especially if I could feel it every time I wiped!!  

I know a lot of women who have had their uterine prolapse fixed by a Mexican Sobadora (Sobandera)....They massage it back into place. My moms friends daughter couldnt get pregnant because of this and she went with a Sobadora and she fixed her uterus and she got pregnant shortly after.