Placenta praevia

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I’ve just had the 20 week scan. Baby is fine. I’ve been diagnosed with complete placenta praevia and booked in for a scan at 28 weeks, and am waiting for an urgent consultant appointment.

Has anyone had complete PP at

I’m so glad to hear about your experience, 15 star. It’s great to know there’s hope. I’ve only googled medical sites. It’s important for me to know as much about it as possible so that I’m informed I guess.

In my first pregnancy I read up about all the possible labour outcomes, drugs available, possible complications etc, just so that I was prepared for different situations that might arise. In the end I was induced with a pessary with both DC and both births were very straight forward after that.

71 I honestly don’t know how you’d even look after such a tiny little bundle. Mine were 9.3 lbs and 8.5 lbs. A friend did suggest yesterday that this baby might be a giant and perhaps a CS won’t be looking so bad after all .

I am 28 w with placenta previa and vasa previa. I had the second scan today and it hasn’t moved at all, so it will be a section between 32 and 36 weeks. I‘m lucky the placenta previa led them to identify the vasa previa as it’s 95% fatal when undiagnosed. The extra care and appointments are quite reassuring to be honest.

Oh god, dame, how frightening. Are you going to be admitted at 32 weeks? Will you be given steroid injections?
Definitely after that the extra scans and monitoring are a good thing.

It was initially a little bit frightening but I‘ve since realised that the outcome would probably have been fine as the approach with the placenta previa would have avoided the risks. I wonder how often that happens to be honest as there is no screening for vasa previa at all.
Hopefully we can keep going until 36 weeks, but the nice thing about having it all planned is that I had to move to a hospital with a large SCBU so I‘m sure they will be on the ball with steroids etc.

I found out about vasa praevia from google and they didn’t test for it - from memory it’s a colour Doppler needed? I paid privately for it and had a 4D scan at the same time.

OMG good luck Dame! All the best for you! There was a lady on my ante natal ward with vasa, and both her and baby were fine in the end.

I had PP, low lying at 20 weeks but completely covering by week 32, which I only found out because of a massive bleed. I was going to move abroad 5 days later. I had to stay in hospital until delivery and a planned cs at 37+3, they moved a bit forward due to the bleeds.

Had a tiny spot on bleeding couple of days ago, but nothing else, so don’t really think that was anything important. On high alert for damn spotting and bleeding every loo visit now.

How are you doing, dame?

I also had vasa previa - baby was fine. They do need a more in depth scan to check for it.