placental abruption

[mercibien]

I'm not sure where to post this, but it is still an unresolved issue for me.
My DS was delivered safely, following induction at 38 weeks, as I had had a spontaneous and unexplained placental abruption at 36 weeks and spent 2 weeks in hospital being regularly monitored but also in an incredible amount of pain,accompanied with bleeding.
He is now a lovely 10 year old with no obvious problems apart from,perhaps dyspraxia, and as my 3rd child completed our family.
I am aware that often a PA results in a tragic outcome, and I don't want to cause additional grief to bereaved parents,but rather reassure some others that things can turn out well.
Any other mums been through the same thing and come out the other end safely?

Hi mercibien.
I know what you mean about this being an unresolved issue - I don't think a day goes by when I don't think about what happened and wonder why.
I had my abruption at home at 39 weeks and dd was born by CS shortly after however she had been starved of oxygen - probably in utero and had seizures 24 hrs later. We were told to wait and see as they weren't sure how her development would be affected.
3 years on and DD is doing well - she does and probably always will struggle a bit physically but nothing compared to our worst fears.
This is a terribly frightening experience to go through and like you say, the outcome could have been so much worse for both of us. Glad your situation has turned out so positively and that you have a lovely 10 yr old now!

It's nice to hear other positive stories. I also had a PA- I was 38+6 and had been in on-off labour for 24 hours. I had 2 haemorrhages at 7/8cm so they tried to speed things up with a syntocinon drip but I haemorrhaged again and DS's heartbeat wasn't recovering from the contractions so I was given an emcs, where they found the abruption and a further haemorrhage behind the placenta. DS is now a lively 3 year old with severe speech delay but other than that perfectly fine.

DD was born 2.5 years later, 8 days overdue by VBAC following a 4.5 hour labour and her placenta was perfect much to my relief.

Thank you both for replying, and to hear about your lively children.Maybe that's the side effect

After DS was born I had PND, something that I had not experienced with my other children, but looking back I am sure the anxiety surrounding his arrival precipitated this.
At times I can't help but reflect that this still impacts on our relationship as I feel I missed out on his babyhood

DS struggles with most sports and has poor manual dexterity, but he continues to improve and can now ride a bike , and fortunately is doing well at school, despite having illegible hand writing.

Small price to pay, and maybe just a coincidence.

I had a placental abruption in the birthing pool during DS1's labour (the midwife very kindly showed me the torn placenta afterwards as DH went very green.) Luckily apart from a very scary 30 minutes when DS1 was pulled out all was okay.
The only problem i had was trying to obtain mid wife led care with my next child, apparently having an abruption n with your first child means you have a significantly higher chance of having onw with your second. So ended up with a very nice consultant instead,