Re: Question about low lying placentas

From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Fri Apr 27 07:35:29 2007


Ah ... the Peripatetic Placenta Radiology. 1978 Jul;128(1):183-8.

Art

At Fri, 27 Apr 2007, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: >
>In a message dated 4/27/07 12:17:29 AM, GIN11153@aol.com writes:
>
>> On a midwifery listserv I am on, someone said that she has a patient who
>> had a placenta 3cm from the os at 33/34 weeks and a month later, it had
>> migrated on it's own to 8cm from the os. Isn't that impossible at a late stage of
>> pregnancy?
>>
>Only if you fall for the "migrates on its own" myth. The placenta doesn't
>have pseudopods to enable it to crawl up the uterine wall. The lower uterine
>segment, esp. nearer you get to term, develops and lengthens on its own, such that
>it puts more distance between the os and the placenta. The placenta stays
>where it is -- mostly.
>
>Joe P.
>

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art fougner, md
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