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Hi, I don't have this issue but I remember as a kid my mother telling me that her dr. had told her that her uterus was retroverted and she had 4 kids, all v____al birth, and I don't remember any serious back complaints from her and I am the oldest.Earlier in my PG (I'm 31+ weeks now), I had weird pressure when urinating too, esp at night,kind of painful, kind of like it felt as if "something" was going to fall out. I mentioned it to my dr. and he seemed to think there was nothing to worry about but then I hadn't been told anything about my uterus, like you have. The feeling has gotten better but I still don't always empty my bladder completely without leaning forward a bit and hovering--like we would do at a gas station bathroom,LOL. I hope this isn't too graphic and maybe allays a bit of your worries. Modesty goes out the window when you get pregnant, at least for me, LOL. BTW, I am 39 gonna be 40 a couple of weeks after the baby is born, what a way to take my mind off it. I'm having a boy, do you know yet?

Yep, I had it too. I am now 22 weeks and had crazy pressure! Then one day it just figured itself out. Sometimes I still get really bad pressure but it comes and goes. Once your baby gets big enough it will pop up - wait and see.

Shelley, i know this may be out of regualr medical boundaries, but would you consider checking with an accupuncturist who speecializes in pregnancy issues or a chiropractor who does webster technique, which is an adjustment for positioning the baby that has very high rates. reg docs usually wont suggest thse measures but these feilds ar the only thing thta helped me with results in what has been a very difficult prgancy for me. the releif can sometimes be immediate. example: in oct i was 5 months preg, and i could not walk. it just happened, intens pelvic pain, unable to lift my legs, dress, walk, etc. medical docs dismissed me, i was in so much pain i would cry out screaming at night from the sharp peicing pain that happened whenevr my legs moved. it turned out i was having pelvic bone seperation, where the bones seperate, become 'twisted' and all the facia and ligs that support the weight are twisted. a chiropractor bent my legs up and out, cracked my pelvis back into place and within a few adjustments i was able to have diminished pain last more than just an hour or two. now at 8 months i have virtually no pain here. this condition is so severe in some women that they end up in a whelchair, yet docs do not usually point the direction to outside doctors or practices that treat this. another case, my baby was breech and i could not breathe. everything was up in my chest, her head shoved under my diaphram--but at the time--in dec-- we didnt know that was why i could not breathe. at one point i was on the floor of the bathroom, culred up and gasping, i felt i was drowning, i was turning blue,my partner was going to call 911 and i downed an antihistimine which opened me up a little. when i told the ob nurse at my doc office what happened, she said it was in my head; that NOTHING can happen with breathign issus ans to buck up, it was only going to get worse. that was when i decided to get a ultrasouind and learned that the babys head was very far up into my breathing area. it was suggetsed by the imaging center to get webster technique which i had never heard of, walking down the steps aftert the very first visit, the baby literlly clunked into place like a transmission. and again, when i informed my specialist that the baby was breeech and that was why i could not breathe, she was like, oh that's normal, we dont have any concrn with that until 35 weeks or so. if i would have listened to thier office as my only compa__s, i would still be gaspiong for breath. in my pregnancy i have suffred a lot, and my medical folks are really not so concrned, the chirpractor and accupuncturist who have helped me have treated the issues my docs blew off or minimized and this has been the saving grace for me. best to you and i so hope that prssure lets up, its sounds terrible. julie

I am suffering from this with my second pregnancy having had the same problem with my first pregancy. In both pregnancies I have had acute urinary retention and have had to be catheterised. In the first pregancy I was catheterised for 2 days at 15 weeks and then it righted itself naturally. In this pregancy I have had to be catheterised at 13 weeks and am currently waiting for the uterus to move. Very few people have this problem into the second trimester and when it does continue into the second tremester it is potentially serious. In the uk they suggest catheterisation until 15-16 weeks - this often frees up more space for the uterus to move. However if the uterus doesn't move by 16 weeks they try to reposition it, first manually then surgically. I hope your problem has righted itself - if it hasn't I would get an opinion from a doctor who has experienced this rare condition before. A lot of doctors have no experience of this problem.

I am suffering from this with my second pregnancy having had the same problem with my first pregancy. In both pregnancies I have had acute urinary retention and have had to be catheterised. In the first pregancy I was catheterised for 2 days at 15 weeks and then it righted itself naturally. In this pregancy I have had to be catheterised at 13 weeks and am currently waiting for the uterus to move. Very few people have this problem into the second trimester and when it does continue into the second tremester it is potentially serious. In the uk they suggest catheterisation until 15-16 weeks - this often frees up more space for the uterus to move. However if the uterus doesn't move by 16 weeks they try to reposition it, first manually then surgically. I hope your problem has righted itself - if it hasn't I would get an opinion from a doctor who has experienced this rare condition before. A lot of doctors have no experience of this problem.

I'm at 12 weeks and I also have a retroved uterus. My waist started growing at 7 weeks so I guess that might mean that's it's a good sign.