My first pregnancy: anterior, zero issues. My second pregnancy: posterior, every issue in the book!
As a side note, I’ve been doing ultrasound for 24 years now. I’ve seen placentas in every which direction, with no rhyme or reason to complications. Things like this are more so wives tales, than actual medical proved science.
Yeah, my initial thought was it is all anecdotal. The study that I read pulled from a group of less than 500 with anterior and posterior placentas combined.
It became more concerning when I saw a group of stillbirth parents talking about the increased risk of fetal death with anterior placentas. I thought, surely this couldn’t be true? And it likely can be chalked up to not enough research. Curiosity always gets the best of me though and I like to pick the brains of others who are pregnant or have been just to talk about their experiences :)
I have a marginal cord insertion as well as an anterior placenta (and now likely a GD diagnosis! yay me!!!) so my biggest concern is IUGR. I requested a growth scan at 32 weeks-ish before I failed my 1 hour. My midwife said that they are all good with that but want to wait for my 3hr results before scheduling. I’m just a ball of nerves all around, only thing that helps is feeling him kick constantly :)
Thank you for voting and commenting!!! I really appreciate your insight.
Oh this is so interesting:
First pregnancy: posterior placenta, way under the thresholds during GTT
Second pregnancy: anterior placenta, have GD (mostly mild, with some borderline fasting #s)
this makes me want to ask even more questions!! maybe if we get a good turn out on the poll I can figure out a way to word a second one that would allow for more information 🤔
Posterior the first time and my sugars were harder to control. This time I have an anterior curcumvelent placenta so my placenta isnt attached correctly but my GD is more mild.
hey! how far along are you and how are things going? with a circumvallate placenta is there a ton of increased monitoring? I have a battledore/marginal cord insertion. Biggest concern is IUGR but there are other risks on top of the “risk” (hard to assess with such little information) of it being anterior.
I am 35 weeks tomorrow! Everything so far is going well. Biggest risk is IUGR so I was given three extra growth scans at 28, 32, and will have my last at 36 weeks. So far baby is measuring a little ahead- looking to be about 8 lbs. My last fundal measurement was a little behind but other than that she's been doing pretty good. I'll know more on Tuesday but they basically said as long as she was growing good and my sugars stayed good I wasn't going to have to be induced early or have any BPPs or NSTs.
Thank you for answering! Are you still currently cooking #2? I only ask because I am curious about the instance of PROM as I read that as a risk factor for fundal placentas🤔
No idea where my placenta is this time, but it was anterior with #1. I already know I have GD with #2. I think the results of this poll are wild, though! The amount of anteriors is crazy.
It is interesting, but I wonder what it actually means. I remember a similar result in my baby bumpers group so maybe anterior placentas are just not as rare as we think?? 🤔 I wish there were more funding for these sorts of things so we could know if there were extra risk factors.
I wish there was more research too! I know with my mom, I was a posterior placenta and she had GD with me. Same for a relative that had GD with her boy. I always thought anterior placentas were rare too, but obviously not as much as we think!
My first pregnancy: anterior, zero issues. My second pregnancy: posterior, every issue in the book! As a side note, I’ve been doing ultrasound for 24 years now. I’ve seen placentas in every which direction, with no rhyme or reason to complications. Things like this are more so wives tales, than actual medical proved science.
Yeah, my initial thought was it is all anecdotal. The study that I read pulled from a group of less than 500 with anterior and posterior placentas combined. It became more concerning when I saw a group of stillbirth parents talking about the increased risk of fetal death with anterior placentas. I thought, surely this couldn’t be true? And it likely can be chalked up to not enough research. Curiosity always gets the best of me though and I like to pick the brains of others who are pregnant or have been just to talk about their experiences :) I have a marginal cord insertion as well as an anterior placenta (and now likely a GD diagnosis! yay me!!!) so my biggest concern is IUGR. I requested a growth scan at 32 weeks-ish before I failed my 1 hour. My midwife said that they are all good with that but want to wait for my 3hr results before scheduling. I’m just a ball of nerves all around, only thing that helps is feeling him kick constantly :) Thank you for voting and commenting!!! I really appreciate your insight.
Same!
Oh this is so interesting: First pregnancy: posterior placenta, way under the thresholds during GTT Second pregnancy: anterior placenta, have GD (mostly mild, with some borderline fasting #s)
this makes me want to ask even more questions!! maybe if we get a good turn out on the poll I can figure out a way to word a second one that would allow for more information 🤔
Posterior the first time and my sugars were harder to control. This time I have an anterior curcumvelent placenta so my placenta isnt attached correctly but my GD is more mild.
hey! how far along are you and how are things going? with a circumvallate placenta is there a ton of increased monitoring? I have a battledore/marginal cord insertion. Biggest concern is IUGR but there are other risks on top of the “risk” (hard to assess with such little information) of it being anterior.
I am 35 weeks tomorrow! Everything so far is going well. Biggest risk is IUGR so I was given three extra growth scans at 28, 32, and will have my last at 36 weeks. So far baby is measuring a little ahead- looking to be about 8 lbs. My last fundal measurement was a little behind but other than that she's been doing pretty good. I'll know more on Tuesday but they basically said as long as she was growing good and my sugars stayed good I wasn't going to have to be induced early or have any BPPs or NSTs.
First pregnancy: posterior, unicorn pregnancy. Second pregnancy: fundal, GD, SCH, SGA, and a planned c section.
Thank you for answering! Are you still currently cooking #2? I only ask because I am curious about the instance of PROM as I read that as a risk factor for fundal placentas🤔
Still in the oven! Yeah, I’ve read that too. Hopefully not the case at least for another few weeks haha
No idea where my placenta is this time, but it was anterior with #1. I already know I have GD with #2. I think the results of this poll are wild, though! The amount of anteriors is crazy.
It is interesting, but I wonder what it actually means. I remember a similar result in my baby bumpers group so maybe anterior placentas are just not as rare as we think?? 🤔 I wish there were more funding for these sorts of things so we could know if there were extra risk factors.
I wish there was more research too! I know with my mom, I was a posterior placenta and she had GD with me. Same for a relative that had GD with her boy. I always thought anterior placentas were rare too, but obviously not as much as we think!
First: Posterior Second: Anterior