Jocelyn: US for placental placement (pg & m/c ment)

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<<I'm curious about the possibility of an u/s showing where the fetus

implants (wall or septum)? Does anyone have any experience with this?>>

Hi Jocelyn, and congratulations on your DD and your BFP :-)

I also have one of those hybridized uteri, by the way. Thick, muscular

septum on the top and thin fibrous septum down to the internal os, partially

resected.

After my diagnosis I got pregnant and had a missed miscarriage. At 7 weeks

along, the pregnancy was still alive but looking sickly. It was in the

upper part of the left horn, and that was all they could tell by US.

Then 9months later I got pregnant again, and again at 7 weeks we saw a

pregnancy in the upper left horn. This one was healthy, but at 7 weeks, my

OB could not tell where the placenta was--sidewall or septum. He had an old

machine. I think it ran on wood or kerosene.

At nine weeks, we saw an umbilical cord leading up to the left sidewall.

At ten weeks I had a level II and nuchal scan US done prior to having a

cerclage, done at a state-of-the-art US lab. The tech turned on the doppler

and saw all kinds of blood flow in the upper left horn, to the rear wall and

left sidewall. That was where the placenta had implanted. It was butted

right up against the septum but was not on the septum itself. I would

suspect that DOppler could pinpoint an implantation site much earlier than 7

weeks. The key is to get the US tech to listen :-)

I had a bunch of ultrasounds after that, right up until the day before DS

was born, at 36w6d. Each time, the placenta looked clearer than before.

Later in the second trimester, it began to calcify a little bit, the way all

older placentas do.

Good luck with an uneventful 9 months :-)

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Beth

SU, resected x 2