Did anyone have partial placenta previa at 20 week scan but it resolved itself before birth?

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Told I had partial placenta previa at scan yesterday.

Has anyone else had this and did the placenta get in the right position? I would really hate to have to have a C section...

any tips much appreciated, is there any way of getting it to move?

Yes - mine did! Although it left it nail-bittingy late to do so. I had a follow-up scan at about 35 weeks, and was booked for a cs at 37.5 weeks. The day before c.s. I was scanned again and sent home to wait for natural labour. It seemed a bit of a mystery to them.

I don't think that there is anything you can actually do. Just wait it out. Check with your midwife or consultant if you need to moderate your activity in any way. It's not an uncommon finding at 20 week (I think it may even be about 20 percent IIRC) and most do move clear in later pregnancy (the lower part of the uterus is the last to stretch). The most helpful description I was given is to imagine an uninflated balloon. Draw on two dots, only a millimeter apart. Now blow up the balloon and watch the dots move further apart. So it is not that the placenta moves as such, but that as the baby grows and the uterus stretches, the placenta is effectively lifted up and away from the cervix.

Try and have a good chat with your midwife about it, and keep an open mind to how you'll give birth.

Good luck.

Mine also vanished by the 36 week scan. I don't think there is anything you can do to help, just wait for nature to take its course. But I read somewhere that around 1 in 20 people have it at the 20 week scan, but only 1 in 200 or so by the time they have gone full term.

Yes, and two of my friends too, it is very common, and very rare for it not to resolve.

yes. resolved, but i ended up with a cs anyway for a completely different reason lol.

Agree with Ateall - try to keep an open mind about the birth...I try to think of it as wanting a baby not wanting a birth - that way you keep your expectations real.

I was told at 20 weeks that mine is low too, and have scan booked for 35 weeks to see if it has moved - so I have read positives about both natural and c sections.

Good luck with it all!

Me! Sorted by 32 week scan. Had lovely home birth.

I had this and had a scan at 34 weeks - It had moved. My friend also had this with her 1st dc and hers also moved.

Mum was previa with my sister from the start. She was hospitalised from very early on and was threatening to miscarry the whole time, she went on to have my sister naturally at 44 weeks.