Placenta not working 100%

[pinkandblue]

Hi Everyone

I am 35 weeks pregnant and went for an ultrasound yesterday and also on Friday because they thought the baby had dropped and was not growing properly.

On the ultrasound it showed that my placenta was not working 100%, it was only working at about 80%. It also showed that my baby is very little (he is only in the 5th percentile, which is just under 2kgs at the moment) and this is because my placenta is not 100%.

I am now going for weekly ultrasounds to make sure the baby is growing ok and if not, I will be induced early.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Thanks

[JanetF]

How do you measure a percentage of a placenta's capacity? That's a new one to me :)

Try this and ask your careproviders lots of questions :) After all, if you baby was in real danger wouldn't you have had to have an immediate caesarean?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...0&dopt=Abstract

Midwifery. 1991 Mar;7(1):31-9. Related Articles, Links

A contemporary view of the human placenta. Fox H.

Our current knowledge of the human placenta is briefly reviewed. Particular stress is placed upon the considerable functional reserve capacity of the placenta, the unimportance of most visible abnormalities of the placenta, the lack of any evidence that the placenta ages during gestation and the lack of significance of placental weight. The effects on the placenta of infection and of maternal cigarette smoking are considered and the concept of placental insufficiency critically discussed. It is concluded that most cases of 'placental insufficiency' are, in reality, examples of maternal vascular insufficiency resulting from inadequate placentation during the early stages of pregnancy.

Suspect Diagnoses Come with Biophysical Profiling

This is a brilliant article about biophysical profiling.

http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/biophysical.asp