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I'm no doctor, but this just sounds WRONG! Kim Kardashian related: open if you dare

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BigRedBall · 07/04/2015 18:46

"It's crazy because I had such an easy delivery, but right after you deliver the baby lives in this sac – the placenta – then you kind of give birth to that and it just kind of comes out. Mine went right back in me because it was stuck to a part of my uterus that it grew into," she explained.

The doctor put his arm in me to here. He had to scrape it off with his fingernails to get it off of my inner lining.

According to kim k, the baby lives in the placenta and hers grew legs and ran right back up inside Confused...not even going to poke fun at the fingernail shit. That's just completely unbelievable.

Makes me happy I gave birth to 3 children for free at the NHS rather than spend thousands in some celeb hospital like Kim k and risk getting fingernailed by a "doctor"....

(Disclaimer: I don't watch this shit, I just read the story on yahoo :))

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IFinishedTheBiscuits · 08/04/2015 07:28

How interesting - after DS2 my placenta wasn't delivered, even after injection and midwife ended up having to pull it out by umbilical cord while I pushed. Sounds like I was lucky then as it was a home birth.
Also remember her remarking that the placenta was unusually small, and I told a friend I couldn't believe DS had fitted in it.... Friend did set me straight.

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BigRedBall · 08/04/2015 07:30

I don't think it's a nasty thread at all. We've all learnt something. You can't deny KK is an attention seeker. How much of what she's shared is an exaggeration, we'll not know. But it looks like she'll be needing a surrogate and I bet it'll be one of her sisters doing it a couple of years down the line. She's in her mid 30's and still can't get her body terminology correct which is beyond my understanding.

But, best wishes to her, hope she heals. She must be ok because there's pics of her every 2 mins all around the world on Instagram.

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PrimroseEverdeen · 08/04/2015 07:31

They probably would have done if they didn't realise it was attached to the muscle of the uterine wall.

She's got some of the terminology a little mixed up, but it is quite clear what she is talking about

Bakeoffcake · 08/04/2015 07:36

I don't often feel lucky to have needed CSs, but I do after reading thisShock

MiaowTheCat · 08/04/2015 07:42

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BigRedBall · 08/04/2015 08:22

Why is it I'm reading only male doctors have been arm deep removing the placenta for everyone on here? Is this just coincidence? Confused

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chickenfuckingpox · 08/04/2015 08:24

i dont think this is a nasty thread but the comments in yahoo are horrible towards her child

no child is ever ugly EVER you never knock a child like that i dont care if the devil breeds you admire the hooves and move on!

SoupDragon · 08/04/2015 08:26

Why is it I'm reading only male doctors have been arm deep removing the placenta for everyone on here?

Probably because there are more male doctors of whatever level you need to be to manually remove a placenta.

chickenfuckingpox · 08/04/2015 08:27

BigRedBall i had female doctors both times

ssd · 08/04/2015 08:30

I think this thread should come with a warning...only those who have finished having children should read this......am squirming here!

and I thought my births were bad.....

CheerfulYank · 08/04/2015 08:32

Was reading this at 32 weeks pregnant a good idea, self?

No. No it was not.

TheFirstOfHerName · 08/04/2015 08:34

I have had retained placenta on two occasions. Both times I had to have a d&c. If only I'd known, I could have just opted for the fingernail removal method.

FayKorgasm · 08/04/2015 08:38

KimK might not be the smartest cookie in the box from what little I know about her she married Kanye West for goodness sake but what she's saying can and does happen. A little bit mixed up in the terminology but lots of people can get mixed up. It sounds like a very traumatic time for her.
For any pregnant women reading this please don't worry. The likelihood of this happening is very slim and an arm is much smaller and slimmer than a baby who would have stretched it all on its way out,but don't worry it shrinks back to original size Wink .

BobsTaintedLeftLeg · 08/04/2015 09:01

The point is no one is saying any of these placenta issues do not exist or happen.

The point is the bullshit KK is making up about it happening to her.

She says she went to a doctor because she wasn't getting pregnant, this is 18 months or so AFTER having North.

There is no way on earth she has had a retained placenta for 18 months plus, no way, she'd be very very ill if she had.

SoupDragon · 08/04/2015 09:07

So this wasn't done straight after the birth? OK, that makes no sense whatsoever!

CheerfulYank · 08/04/2015 09:22

That's not necessarily true Bob.

There was a thread on a different site awhile ago (might have been a few years ago) with women who had passed bits of retained placenta after a year.

Whether or not that's the case with Kim, I don't know, but it isn't unheard of.

Birdsgottafly · 08/04/2015 09:42

""There is no way on earth she has had a retained placenta for 18 months plus, no way, she'd be very very ill if she had.""

My Niece's retained Placenta wasn't discovered until 10 months after the birth. She's had further problems and still isn't "right" after two years.

KK has mixed up the terminology. What she is now talking about is the Scar Tissue, that can and does stop or make it difficult to conceive.

This combined can lead to needing a hysterectomy. If she defiantly wants more than two children, using her own eggs, then a Surrogate would be a viable option, given her income.

It has been already suggested, by her Mother that her Sister would do this.

I've known Sisters to offer to carry a baby for each other (and SILs etc).

I've been in a temporary unwanted infertile position and watched others struggle to conceive. If you could, you would want to help, or use your money to solve this.

KK may be a lot of things, but that doesn't mean that she isn't being affected by these issues, being rich/famous and an attention seeker doesn't mean that you aren't honestly suffering from medical problems.

SoupDragon · 08/04/2015 09:44

Surely after 18 months it would be a surgical procedure not a "James Herriott" job though?

I feel sorry for her regardless if this has caused her fertility problems.

BishopBrennansArse · 08/04/2015 09:46

Yep after I lost DD1 I had a retained placenta. Had doctor with arm up to elbow.
Worst bit was every time age went to remove it it fell apart so took a couple of hours to get it all.

PrimroseEverdeen · 08/04/2015 09:58

People are getting confused between retained placenta and placenta accreta. They are 2 different conditions. What she is saying is not "bullshit". It is likely to be correct. When the placenta attaches abnormally to the uterine wall it often cannot be removed other than by a hysterectomy. It can also invade other organs such as the bladder.

It is feasible that the damage was only discovered 18 months later.

KK is being berated on this thread for being stupid and not understanding the condition, however it is clearly a complicated situation as evidenced by the fact that many on this thread are understandably confused.

I am no KK fan, but I find it wholly depressing that a group of mothers cannot muster any sympathy for a woman, who had been through a traumatic birth and now is facing secondary infertility.

DixieNormas · 08/04/2015 10:11

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HighwayDragon · 08/04/2015 10:30

I didn't pass my placenta for aaaaggeess after birth it was about 20minutes before anyone mentioned taking it out manually, within seconds of hearing tgat my body let go of it naturally. Sounds like I dodged a bullet! Shock Grin

rebelfor · 08/04/2015 10:38

Jeez I'm glad I hadn't read this thread whilst pregnant Confused

snowglobemouse · 08/04/2015 12:16

what a nasty thread