unfortunately the most vocal always seem to be the least reasonable.

Please, speak up and can you ask fellow pro-life people who are idiots to STFU?

I LOVE Kate Clancy. Win.

Have you been here before?

aha, thank you!

You're welcome:) Fingers crossed for good knowledgeable doctors and cute healthy kids in your future.

The point of those stats is that the treatments that result from annual screening smears are, for most young women, unnecessary, as the abnormalities usually go away within 2-3 years. So they would suffer the treatment and the future side effects (scar tissue on the cervix, which can interfere with pregnancy and…

Certainly on the pathology forms you have to mention if you're on the pill - I think it affects how the pathologist reads the slides.

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. If you haven't found it already, this site might be helpful: it has info, personal stories, and a blogroll of women who've also been diagnosed with Mullerian anomalies and are at various stages of family planning, including parenting [mulleriananomalies.blogspot.com]

*clink*

I was hoping I'd see this here.

Another point: I know in the US it's recommended to get a smear test annually. However, in other countries the recommendations vary from 2-5 years; it's every 3 years where I live.

Thumbs up to this! It's so great to see a clear yet personal article on the topic.

It's a very serious consideration, I have an American friend who recently had a baby and her work situation is just a nightmare.

Ireland. Where abortion is illegal, but we at least have 26 weeks of paid maternity leave and 16 weeks unpaid leave [www.citizensinformation.ie] , and one free year of preschool for children of a certain age.

Yes, indeed. what's saved me a few times is cranberry pills- those and lots of water and I'm usually ok within 24 hours.

Want to not get pregnant? Sorry, that's your business.

Philip Treacy designed Duchess Camilla's hat for her wedding to Prince Charles, which makes that rumour pretty believable for me.

@LaComtesse: It's scientifically proven!!1!! Baby boys are allergic to all colours except blue,red and brown!!1!!!

@pirhan: aha, yes, thank you, I knew I'd heard about it before somewhere but my google-fu failed me.