Cervical length check? (maybe stupid ?)

jenn_darrin1515

I am having one tomorrow in addition to our u/s and I was just wondering what they actually did to check your cervical length?

heathb21

It should just be part of the u/s

soxfan812

Whenever I have an u/s, the tech also checks my cervix through internal ultrasound.  It takes about a minute.  HTH

jenn_darrin1515

Sounds easy enough - thanks ladies!

GretchenlovesMichael

it's a vaginal u/s (with an u/s wand), and they just look at the screen and measure the length of your cervix in cm.  mine has been 3.7-4cm thus far.

GL!

krstyqt

They can check it with the ultrasound on your belly or an internal.  Mine always does an internal just to get a more accurate measurement.

itsallover

I just had one (finally at 23 weeks) and they just did it as part of the external US - it was part of my anatomy scan (yes, it was really late).

I have been feeling a ton of pressure was really worried about it.  It was surprisingly at 5.  I assume that if it was shortened, they would have wanted to get a more accurate reading and would have done the internal. 

ChiBride2007

I have had multiple u/s techs tell me that they are not supposed to quote cervical length from an abdominal u/s. She'll say, it looks long, but we have to do an internal/vaginal u/s to confirm and measure. Therefore I'm not sure how much stock I'd put into a measurement from an abdominal u/s.

PianoPlayingSarah

I only had 1 internal u/s to measure cervix when the babies were too big to get a read thru abdominal u/s.  All my other cervical checks were abdominal or manual exam - and I had it checked at every appt.