Not exact matches
Both births were c - sections (1
placenta previa, 2 footling breech), both daughters nursed exclusively and on demand to 6 months, neither with any oral issues... I don't think I'll ever
know exactly what happened, but if I'd listened to my first daughters pediatrician I wouldn't have been successful in breastfeeding my eldest to 30 months, and may have been discouraged with my second (who is 8 months and still nursing strong).
If you plan to have more children, you should
know that every c - section you have raises your risk in future pregnancies of
placenta previa and
placenta accreta, in which the
placenta implants too deeply and doesn't separate properly at delivery.
Next check up around 21 weeks showed all was good with baby, don't
know why had that bleeding scare but I was diagnosed with
Placenta Previa, (Low lying
Placenta, just above my cervix) I found out I was having a girl I was so excited.
How do they
know if a
placenta previa is present?
(Of course, there are a few mothers who have
known risk factors that make safe natural birth impossible, like
placenta previa, but that presumably doesn't apply to you.)
I didn't
know what was going on, but I guessed it might be
placenta previa, which I had only briefly read about it all my pregnancy books.
Before my current pregnancy, I was doing Crossfit most days (since I've had
placenta previa in the past and a partial abruption, it wasn't a good idea to keep doing heavy lifting and super high intensity until we
knew where the
placenta is).
During every one of my pregnancies I've learned many new words and terms that I didn't even
know existed before we started having children... Words like
placenta previa, nuchal cord, VBAC and HBAC (and lots of others).
Logically, I
knew that home birth can be statistically as safe as hospital birth in most cases and that statistically, it would be a good option for us, but after having undetected
placenta previa with a previous pregnancy, I always held on to a fear that something might be wrong that we didn't
know about or that my body was somehow broken or inadequate.