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How can you tell if your cervix is closed and meaning your pregnant? mine is very high up, and fells sort of like puckered lips, and my walls are soft

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Dr. Jane Steiner answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

See an OB-GYN!: You say you are 4 weeks pregnant -- I assume you did a pregnancy test and found this out. Stop trying to feel your own cervix and uterus and see an OB-GYN doctor. Let them examine you and/or do the necessary tests to determine if you are still pregnant.

Answered 5/20/2014

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