Bit long but could really do with support from mn with this one. I'm 26 weeks and 2 days pregnant and a week ago was rushed to hospital with a huge bleed and spent five days there while it settled. They were prepping me for delivery on Friday as I had tightenings every three minutes but then it all calmed down.
This is a four year in the making ivf pregnancy so my nerves were already rather fraught. I found the bleed terrifying as I thought I'd lost the baby til he did a huge kick when the ambulance went over a bump. I knew my placenta was low lying but an internal scan revealed it has moved down, I have a smaller extra lobe now sat over the os attached by a thin band to the main placenta. Currently the band is not over the cervix. However, I'm back in next weds to check for vasa previa as ivf and extra lobes are risk factors and they want a close look. Looking up vasa previa (read googling it like an insane woman at midnight on a lonely ward) has terrified me. I'm now scared of more bleeds (which I've been told to expect, to have bag packed, phone charged, stay within major hospital reach etc) but mostly that I could lose this baby. If it is vasa previa they said I would probably be admitted and delivered at 34-35 weeks with a seven week stint on the ward. Another bleed and they'll also keep me in.
Any help or experience with any of these things and generally a hand hold til my scan next weds would be gratefully received.
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Placenta previa/vasa previa/succenturiate lobe - support needed.
thegoldenlemon · 11/09/2015 10:22
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