Anyone fell pregnant again after placental abruption and subsequent stillbirth?

[gemloving]

My baby was stillborn at 35 weeks, 7 weeks ago due to placental abruption.

Has anyone on here had a baby after this has happened? Chances are 1/10 for this to happen again.

All my brain thinks about is having another baby despite this having nearly killed me and my precious little boy.

Long shot but I thought I can see if anyone on here has gone through this.

Hi @gemloving, what an awful experience for you and I'm so sorry to hear about your little boy.

My sister had an abruption and subsequent stillbirth at 35+6 which too nearly cost her life. She has since gone on to have a healthy pregnancy with another little boy. She was on baby aspirin from the start, had fortnightly scans and had a scheduled section at 37 weeks.

What makes you believe there's a 1/10 chance of a repeat? Her stats were elevated but not that high.

@TTCJJB thank you for your message, very helpful. It's just research that's out there. If you Google, it's the first thing that comes up (the 10%). Now that I read more about it, I notice the true risk seems to be 5.7%

www.reliasmedia.com/articles/136912-recurrence-rate-for-placental-abruption

I'm so so sorry for your loss

I didn't want to read and run. I'm not sure of the stats but I had an placental abruption. Dc was delivered okay in the end

My next pregnancy I was classed as high risk and was consultant led the whole way. To be honest I don't ever remember anyone talking to me about the probability of it happening again just that it was raised.

I had a planned section in to prevent the abruption occurring again.

Hopefully it gives you some hope as dc2 is currently giddy and refusing to go to sleep...

Hope you get some answers and support. Take care

@sodthesodoff thank you for your response & im sorry you had placental abruption yourself but im glad it had a happy ending. Busy boy! My first boy is like that (second sleeps like a dream).

I'm surprised it wasn't discussed given how dangerous it can be 😔 I lost 1.7 litres of blood despite having called an ambulance 2 minutes after it happening at home.