Retained placenta a second time?

[Samjjd1]

Hi I was just wondering if anyone has had a second retained placenta? I had one with my son and lost 2000ml of blood and was going in and out of consciousness and had to be rushed to theatre to get it manually removed. I was put under anaesthetic even tho I singed for an epidural, I had to have 2 blood transfusion aswell. Also I do belive it was down to the fact I had a student midwife delivering my baby as they are too short staffed! I’ve not long found out I’m expecting again and I’m really worried incase this happens again! On that day it was supposed to be the happiest day of my life I never seen my son most of the day and when I was ruched to theatre my parter got told it was best to get all the family up 😫

Omg im so sorry this happened to you i can relate as it happened to me last year with my 3rd baby im now pregnant again and worrying about the same thing so i can relate but don't know if it will happen again i have heard though that if you have had a retained placenta you are more at risk of it gappening again ... someone can come along and tell me if this is the wrong info though.

I really hope everything goes well for you i have a consultant app this month to discuss elective c-section for this exact matter and problems with my heart rate and babys during labour xx

I had a retained placenta with my first baby, a quick home delivery but then blue lights to hospital and theatre removal. I was told my chances of it happening again were higher but second baby, placenta delivered just fine. Hope it all goes well for you.

I had it with my first (following an induction) but then had the second and third with no issues at all.

had it with my first (following an induction) but then had the second and third with no issues at all.

Same.

Apparently a psychological third stage rather than a managed third stage can reduce retained placenta. Which is funny because I had the injection and for ages post partum I was questioning myself as to whether that caused my PPH (exactly like yours except I lost 1800mls), but I kept going back and telling myself no because apparently it’s supposed to help the placenta come away quicker. But I read tonight apparently it also closes the cervix quicker too. I did have a very quick delivery and a stuck baby so they were also possibilities.

It left me with so many unanswered questions, I did have a debrief but I was basically told I was unlucky and I ended up blaming myself.
Like yourself I want answers before I go through it all again so it’ll settle my mind but I have no clue who to talk to before getting pregnant again. I have been told in the debrief is that the only thing they would do differently next time is put a cannula in my hand as soon as I came into hospital because they struggled last time because my veins were collapsing due to lack of blood post partum

I had it with my second but not my third. Exact same thing happened to me but not student midwives. It’s just sadly something that can happen at random.

Thanks so much for all the reply’s. I can’t believe how common it is, before this happened to me I had never heard of this and I was never told anything about what happened either afterwards. I was also cut front to back when they tried to get the placenta out, my sister also seen them do it and it was never in my notes about it all that was put was I had a tear which was not true!