Hello. I'm 34 year old female and I'm pretty desperate right now. I was pregnant for 18 weeks and about two weeks ago I have lost my child. You really can't imagine how shattered I was when all this happened. I was simply devastated. Everything was going just fine and one day- suddenly, excessive bleeding occurred and that’s all I know. My gynecologist doubts that it could from some cervical incompetence but he still isn’t sure. What kind of conditions this is? I have heard that some Dr. Barbara Shortle, gynecologist from N.Y.C. know a lot about this condition and she even wrote some books on this subject. Please help me to understand what happened to me!
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Hello. I was very sorry when I read your post and don’t really know what to say about it. Some things just happen and we simply can't do anything about it. You were right about this Barbara Shortle. She has written a book called “Clinical aspects of cervical incompetence” and I had opportunity to read it. She says that cervical incompetence is one condition in which woman cervix is too weak to hold on the baby after 16 to 20 weeks.
She is saying a lot about possible causes but the bottom line is that it is considered to be due to either an inherent weakness of the cervix tissue or a result of forced dilatation or trauma. Good news about is that it is treatable and the procedure is called Cervical cerclage. It involves placing a stitch high up around the cervix to try keeping it closed.
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