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jules363

02/04/2005, 02:50 PM

Girls,

I don't know if this is the right place to put this, or if there is any right place, but I just have been thinking about what I was told after Indi was born.

When her placenta was delivered the midwife asked my permission to send it to pathology. She said that there was a calcified piece on my placenta, which had a "feotal outline" (which I found strange), and was almost certain that Indi had started out as a twin. I just gave her permission and didn't think much more about it.

Now I find myself curious about it though. The midwife said it is very rare, she was in her 50's and said that she had only seen it twice in her career. Has anyone ever heard of this?

Happy for a mod to move this if this is the wrong place for it.

Jules

Julia 33
Gary 50 (tired, but willing!)
2 angels, Sept 00 and Sept 02
DD DAKOTA 12/09/03
DD INDIANA 3/01/05

02/04/2005, 04:58 PM

Jules, maybe do a google search under "fetus papyraceous" - I found a few items that seem informative. In brief ...

QUOTE

When only one twin dies in utero, it may become a fetus papyraceous. In that condition, the fluid is resorbed from the dead twin's body, and it is compressed into the adjacent membranes by the growth of the living fetus

... this sounds pretty much like what you are talking about.

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