Complete Placenta Previa

[sar35]

sorry OP to crash your thread.
I think what ppl need to remember is that is is only 5% that dont move and even at 34 weeks it can still move, but if you have spotting or bleeding and you go to hospital if they want to keep you in its for a very good reason... Speaking from experience.
I was very naive. if you look at other threads on the same topic most women have normal births and its moved out of the way.

Maybe they should employ us to go round the ante natal wards and talk to women who are in for a "wee bit of bleeding"

the 2nd time i went in overnight for a small bleed they sent me home telling me to expect to bleed and not to worry if it isnt heavier than a period. that was at 24 weeks, at 30 weeks on a monday i had a bloody show and thought nothing of it as was told to expect bleeding. on tuesday i had contractions and went into a different hospital and had to have steroids for babys lungs as they thought i was having him. they asked me why i didnt go in the day before and i told them what the other hospital said they were shocked.
Id go round the wards and tell women.
What do women on here with PP think, bearing in mind yours will more than likely move

 

[Alias]

I too called an ambulance, but I dont think they realised the urgency! I lost massive clots in the toilet then stopped bleeding by the time they came and I was begging them to hurry up and get me to hospital. Although they blue lighted me I dont think they really knew what it was (maybe they did and they were being uber calm) 6 hours later I had 'the bleed'. I feel like I should start an awareness about the severity of this... who's in?

The day after I had DD there was another previa patient admitted to my old room. She was in the same boat - told she'd be kept in, upset about the (seemingly) unnecesscary hospital stay, wanted to go home. The girls straightened her out really quick! Two of them were also previa patients, and were awake to hear me being rushed out to surgery at 2am. They weren't going anywhere! They both made it to their scheduled sections, bored but otherwise fine

ETA what is scariest to me is that I *didn't* bleed. I'd been told to watch for bleeding, and by the time DD was born I knew it could be bad. But when I started bleeding out, the placenta blocked the blood from exiting. So I wasn't bleeding at all, but was feeling very faint from the blood loss. If I'd been at home, I'd probably have gone back to bed and said 'self, we'll see how we feel in the morning'. But I was already in hospital, and so told the midwife I wasn't feeling well. DD's heartbeat could barely be found, and when it was it was 80-90. If I'd been at home...

 

[Foogirl]

The day after I had DD there was another previa patient admitted to my old room. She was in the same boat - told she'd be kept in, upset about the (seemingly) unnecesscary hospital stay, wanted to go home. The girls straightened her out really quick! Two of them were also previa patients, and were awake to hear me being rushed out to surgery at 2am. They weren't going anywhere! They both made it to their scheduled sections, bored but otherwise fine

 

[hillsey]

I got diagnosed with a low lying placenta at 12 weeks following a heavy bleed but was told it would almost certainly move. At the 20 week scan its still hadn't moved but was told there was still every chance it would.

A few weeks later I had another heavy bleed and was admitted to hospital for a couple of days until the bleeding stopped. I had a scan then and was told that I had a major placenta previa (the placenta was completely covering cervix) but there was still plenty of time for it to move. I went home and carried on as normal.

At 28 weeks another huge bleed and I was back in hospital, I was in for 4 weeks and they only let me home on total bed rest after my begging, I couldn't stand it anymore! I went on complete bed rest and although had several small bleeds everything was fine.

At 34 weeks I went for a scan where they confirmed that there was no way it could move at that late stage and scheduled me for a c-section at 39 weeks.

One week later I woke up and my waters broke, I immediately called an ambulance and was rushed to hospital, sirens blazing. When they examined me at the hospital I had already delivered the baby's head and the rest of him immediately followed. The placenta was delivered normally, I had no major blood loss during the birth and my son was a perfect 6lb and we both went home the next day!

 

[Foogirl]

One week later I woke up and my waters broke, I immediately called an ambulance and was rushed to hospital, sirens blazing. When they examined me at the hospital I had already delivered the baby's head and the rest of him immediately followed. The placenta was delivered normally, I had no major blood loss during the birth and my son was a perfect 6lb and we both went home the next day!

Wow! So at 34 weeks it was totally in the way, and a week later it had moved? That's amazing! Did they say how common that was, or were they totally dumfounded?
Such a brilliant positive story, made all the better with your LO not suffering any ill effects from coming early.

 

[sar35]

I got diagnosed with a low lying placenta at 12 weeks following a heavy bleed but was told it would almost certainly move. At the 20 week scan its still hadn't moved but was told there was still every chance it would.

A few weeks later I had another heavy bleed and was admitted to hospital for a couple of days until the bleeding stopped. I had a scan then and was told that I had a major placenta previa (the placenta was completely covering cervix) but there was still plenty of time for it to move. I went home and carried on as normal.

At 28 weeks another huge bleed and I was back in hospital, I was in for 4 weeks and they only let me home on total bed rest after my begging, I couldn't stand it anymore! I went on complete bed rest and although had several small bleeds everything was fine.

At 34 weeks I went for a scan where they confirmed that there was no way it could move at that late stage and scheduled me for a c-section at 39 weeks.

One week later I woke up and my waters broke, I immediately called an ambulance and was rushed to hospital, sirens blazing. When they examined me at the hospital I had already delivered the baby's head and the rest of him immediately followed. The placenta was delivered normally, I had no major blood loss during the birth and my son was a perfect 6lb and we both went home the next day!

congrats

 

[hillsey]

They were completely dumbfounded LOL