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Low lying anterior placenta & ELCS risks?

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katiegolightly · 09/04/2012 18:46

It's occurred to me that this may be problematic... obviously I'll speak to the obs this week but wondered if anyone had info from their obs about this situation. I know from my 36w scan (now 37+5) that the placenta is right where a CS incision would be. The rescan due to low placenta which is now sufficiently out the way but the baby is breech, hence ELCS.

I've tried a bit of googling but all I've managed to do is scare myself by reading about ladies having severe post partum haemorrhaging or ending up with emergency hysterectomies. I'm after any realistic and standard 'risks' that may have been flagged to anyone in a similar situation that I can discuss with the obs. I assume it's just a case of the placenta probably being hoiked out first meaning faster work of getting the baby out, or do they do the incision in a slightly different place?? How can they avoid the placenta, fwics it's huge!

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katiegolightly · 10/04/2012 07:25

Bumping in case anyone can advise!

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HybridTheory · 10/04/2012 20:25

I had a low lying anterior placenta with #2. It was an ELCS (my 2nd nothing to do with placenta) and I googled and scared myself silly too but the medical staff never even mentioned it as a problem. I think they can do incisions slighly above or below where we 'think' they should be (hence some people having 2 CS scars). The fact that they know means they will likely have plenty of blood to hand should they think there will be a problem. Talkto your consultant if you are really worried.

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