[Koobie83]

Hi,

Had my first OB appointment this morning. He checked my NT scan done at 13 weeks and told me one of the notes was that my placenta was low lying. He didn't seem overly concerned with this and told me they can move up during the pregnancy as the uterus and baby grows and they will keep an eye out on it.

I'm 17 weeks now and my Morphology scan will be done in 3 weeks. I'm curious because not long after the NT scan I had a small bleed. I asked the OB whether this could have been the placenta moving - he said perhaps but they couldn't be sure.

So naturally.. I am curious. Has anyone else had this? Does this automatically mean placenta previa and a Caesar? Or is 13 weeks too early to say whether this is going to be an issue at all?

[strawberry blond...]

Too early I would think. My last pregnancy was similar and by 30 weeks it had moved.

[Bluenomi]

I had a low placenta at my 20 week scan. I just had another one at 36 weeks to check where it was and it was clear by then. 13 weeks is way to early to be getting worried

[KRT]

Too early to worry. My OB said to imagine your uterus was a balloon. If you blow it up a little way, and put a mark right at the bottom, then blow it up all the way, you'll almost always find that the mark is now nowhere near the bottom - and it's the same with placentas.

[Velvetta]

In my 3rd I had a low one at 12 weeks and it stayed put, pp grade 3! 4th and 5th pregnancies the placenta was fine.There's no knowing. Hope it moves up for you, it's quite stressful. Just be thank ful I guess that the technology exists to see this. This was one of many major causes of mother and child death in childbirth for every century up to the last.

KRT, sorry but that balloon analogy is just stupid, the growing uterus and where the placenta implants is nothing like a balloon being blown up.

This post has been edited by Velvetta: 20/11/2012, 02:34 PM

[soontobegran]

The placenta doesn't really move from the wall of the uterus, it just gets further away from the cervix as the lower segment of the uterus forms so the bleed probably wasn't caused by the low lying placenta unless the placenta was noted as being covering the os and not just low.
13 weeks is way too early to be diagnosing PP and thinking C/S.

Lots of luck

[ceeshell]

It's too early. Mine was low lying all the way Til 32 weeks, then it was fine.

[soontobegran]

KRT, sorry but that balloon analogy is just stupid, the growing uterus and where the placenta implants is nothing like a balloon being blown up.

It is not a stupid analogy Velvetta, the lower segment of the uterus is non existant until late second to third trimester when the uterus has increased in size.

[Natttmumm]

ay too early, mine was low at 12 weeks and 15 weeks. It was not near the cervix by 19 weeks scan.

The obyn said at 12 weeks - it will most likely be fine

[Koobie83]

Awesome advice everyone. Thank you!