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Just had my US at 19 weeks and was told that my placenta was low, not to
worry and I should have it checked again at the end of my 2nd trimester. After reading about it a bit, I found that it is still early in the pregnancy and that the placenta usually moves along and it is no longer an issue. But I also ready about the condition Placenta Previa. Has anyone else had this experience? |
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kathy wrote:
Just had my US at 19 weeks and was told that my placenta was low, not to worry and I should have it checked again at the end of my 2nd trimester. After reading about it a bit, I found that it is still early in the pregnancy and that the placenta usually moves along and it is no longer an issue. But I also ready about the condition Placenta Previa. Has anyone else had this experience? a lady had it stay low not all that long ago, she'd had 4 normal deliveries, so it was rather frustrating for her, she had a pretty bad bleed at 37 weeks, so it was emergency c-section then, rather than the scheduled on a couple of weeks later, she pops in from time to time, but I guess she's busy with her little one! Other than that over the time I've been around, I'm pretty sure everyone that has had a problem flagged has been fine at a later scan - I think the quoted rate of later scan showing no problems is over 90%. Don't have a repeat scan too early if you still get a borderline result you only end up with yet another rescan, though obviously if you have bleeding or anything they'll want to check. It seems that transvaginal ultrasound is more accurate, so if it does turn out to be low later on, ask them to do that, also ask how far it is away from the edge of the cervix, it can be completely over, touching the edge, or not quite touching, with the latter two, you have more options - unfortunately, when the placenta is low, however you do delivery there is more risk than otherwise, bleeding can occur during a vaginal delivery, but caesarean with a low lieing placenta has higher risk than a standard one. http://www.fetalmedicine.ac.uk/lib/f...us/previa.html is very concise, just gives you the definitions of the grades and the rates that false positives occur with abdominal ultrasound. It's hard to know exactly what to say at this stage and what to suggest you "do", chances are it won't be an issue, but you don't want to get to 34 weeks and find it is and have to start from scratch making a c-section birth plan and whatnot. So it's probably wise to do preparation for c-section, make yourself a c-section birth plan find out what choices you have and so on, whilst also trying not to worry about it. Cheers Anne |
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kathy wrote:
Just had my US at 19 weeks and was told that my placenta was low, not to worry and I should have it checked again at the end of my 2nd trimester. After reading about it a bit, I found that it is still early in the pregnancy and that the placenta usually moves along and it is no longer an issue. But I also ready about the condition Placenta Previa. Has anyone else had this experience? Yes, lots and lots of people have had this experience with routine ultrasound. It is not at all uncommon for the placenta to be low at this point in pregnancy. Especially when it is just "low" (rather than covering the os partially or completely), it is very likely not to be an issue later in pregnancy. It's not really that the placenta moves. If you took an uninflated balloon and made a mark near the neck, and then blew up the balloon, the mark would appear to move, but really it's in the same place. It's just that the expansion of the balloon naturally increases the distance between all points on the surface. Frankly, it's a bit mystifying that they even make a fuss over it, as it is a non-issue the vast majority of the time. I think it just scares people unnecessarily. Don't do the repeat ultrasound too early, as you'll just risk the same situation where it's really too early to tell if it will be an issue at term. Best wishes, Ericka Best wishes, Ericka |
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Hi Kathy
When I was pregnant with Joanna I had a massive bleed and was kept in hospital over night and they did a scan the next morning and it showed baby was fine but my placenta was low and I was told excactly the same don't worry about it for now as it could correct itself and we'll give you another scan later on in the pregnancy. Sure enough it did correct itself and I went on to have a healthy pregnancy. They even thought at the end of my pregnancy that I might have pre eclampsia but even that turned to nothing in the end so no I wouldnt stress about it for now but make sure you have a scan later on. april "kathy" wrote in message ... Just had my US at 19 weeks and was told that my placenta was low, not to worry and I should have it checked again at the end of my 2nd trimester. After reading about it a bit, I found that it is still early in the pregnancy and that the placenta usually moves along and it is no longer an issue. But I also ready about the condition Placenta Previa. Has anyone else had this experience? |
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Frankly, it's
a bit mystifying that they even make a fuss over it, as it is a non-issue the vast majority of the time. I think it's because abdominal ultrasound has a moderate degree of error in both directions for exact determination of position, even for completely covering, there was still a 7% error in one study I saw (as in 7% where it appeared to be completely covering were not later on), with similar errors in the opposite direction. If a doctor is in the camp of checking everything, then it is worth checking, you'll find the vast majority of previas and at least expect sudden bleeds in the 3rd trimester, rather than having to diagnose when the bleed occurs. You and I both know routine ultrasound doesn't improve outcomes, but it's still very widely done and I can see why if it's being done this is one of the things looked for as the studies flagging unnecessary interventions in this area are no stronger than in any other area. Cheers Anne |
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Anne Rogers wrote:
Frankly, it's a bit mystifying that they even make a fuss over it, as it is a non-issue the vast majority of the time. I think it's because abdominal ultrasound has a moderate degree of error in both directions for exact determination of position, even for completely covering, there was still a 7% error in one study I saw (as in 7% where it appeared to be completely covering were not later on), with similar errors in the opposite direction. If a doctor is in the camp of checking everything, then it is worth checking, you'll find the vast majority of previas and at least expect sudden bleeds in the 3rd trimester, rather than having to diagnose when the bleed occurs. You and I both know routine ultrasound doesn't improve outcomes, but it's still very widely done and I can see why if it's being done this is one of the things looked for as the studies flagging unnecessary interventions in this area are no stronger than in any other area. But these things are not without cost in terms of anxiety. I don't particularly mind that they look, or that they make note, but whatever they're telling women causes most of them to worry! And I suppose that's normal. Anything not precisely textbook is likely to worry any pregnant mother, no matter what her rational mind says. I don't really think they ought to keep it secret either, but there has got to be a better way of sharing this information that doesn't get women so worried. (Whether the OP is worried or not, I've run into plenty of women IRL who were very worried by these sorts of results, so it seems a big enough issue that someone ought to do something about it to me.) Best wishes, Ericka |
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But these things are not without cost in terms of anxiety. I don't particularly mind that they look, or that they make note, but whatever they're telling women causes most of them to worry! And I suppose that's normal. Anything not precisely textbook is likely to worry any pregnant mother, no matter what her rational mind says. I don't really think they ought to keep it secret either, but there has got to be a better way of sharing this information that doesn't get women so worried. (Whether the OP is worried or not, I've run into plenty of women IRL who were very worried by these sorts of results, so it seems a big enough issue that someone ought to do something about it to me.) I don't dispute at all that it worries people, these days, it's just not very PC to not tell people things, and if you're going to have to rescan, you probably can't avoid telling a women you plan to do that (if you have facilities in the office you could do it on the fly, but I don't know what the tolerance of that would be) and if you tell someone you're going to rescan and don't tell them why, you probably don't get that much difference in the anxiety levels and if you rescan everyone then you add in all the problems of 3rd trimester ultrasound and create more anxiety over the findings then. Having some reasonable information sheets available might help and having different ones for different grades not having them all on the same sheet. Cheers Anne |
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