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Re: abortion/placenta previa From: Kathi Wilson (wilsonk@gtn.on.ca) Thu Oct 12 08:24:15 2000 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Maybe not US only: NPR this AM" Previous message: Jeffrey W. Clemens: "Re: Maybe not US only: NPR this AM" Maybe in reply to: howard anne: "abortion/placenta previa" Next in thread: Robert J Woolley: "Re: abortion/placenta previa" Reply: Robert J Woolley: "Re: abortion/placenta previa" DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: > << > I am 22.5 weeks and just had an ultrasound. The ultrasound tech > > determined that I had placenta previa.I am going back in five days to > > see if the placenta has shifted away from the os. Is this possible and > > could they have missed diagnosed me to this condition? I want to > > terminate the pregnancy because I am young and in college and cannot > > support a family right now. >> > > Let's just step back and think this one through... > > 1. 22.5 weeks and only NOW is worried about termination? Must have been > 'showing' for about 6-8 weeks now. Certainly has felt quickening for about > 4-6 weeks. Is this where you put up the sign "Slow Children at Play"??? Wait just a doggone minute, there, Joe. If she's a primigravida (and she probably is...), she's unlikely to be showing much at 22 weeks, not much more than a little pot, if that. Certainly *not* for 6 - 8 weeks, unless pregnancy is different in Louisiana than in Ontario. Showing at 14 weeks?? As for movement, most primigravidas don't report fetal movement until 18-20 weeks, at best. I find that anteriorly located placentae can delay that even a bit longer. And, it's amazing what denial can do to contribute to ignoring these subtle movements (must be gas....). > 2. In college and can't support a family... but hasn't availed of > contraception? Don't they give that out like water in colleges? Where the > heck is Planned Parenthood on your campus?? Haven't you *ever* gotten the phone call early in the am that "the condom got lost" in the heat of the moment? I'm not talking not used, but as in "he came out and the condom didn't". The damned things break, fall off, leak, etc. Women get the 'flu, take antibiotics, or (*gasp*) forget to take the damned pill -- poor things, they're human, unfortunately, and have to bear all the responsibility for sexual activity (as the responses to these posts clearly indicate -- after all nobody's vilifying the male half of this equation, or suggesting that *he* not have sex). And, hey, maybe she's at Bible college....bet they don't hand out contraception there :-) > 3. The ultrasound tech/radiologist wants to rescan in FIVE DAYS to see if the > placenta previa migrated? Who certified these people? Do they have diplomas > on the wall, or do they work out of a station wagon??? Probably the latter. Money scam. It never astounds me the kind of unmitigated nonsense that you can get from poorly run labs. We once had one tell us to be sure to rescan for fetal position because (holy Moses) the fetus was *breech* at 20 weeks. Give me *strength* oh Lord..... -- Kathi Wilson, RM Ilderton, Ontario, Canada mailto:wilsonk@gtn.on.ca ********************** Thames Valley Midwives 346 Platts Lane, London, Ontario, Canada http://tvm.on.ca mailto:info@tvm.on.ca Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Maybe not US only: NPR this AM" Previous message: Jeffrey W. Clemens: "Re: Maybe not US only: NPR this AM" Maybe in reply to: howard anne: "abortion/placenta previa" Next in thread: Robert J Woolley: "Re: abortion/placenta previa" Reply: Robert J Woolley: "Re: abortion/placenta previa"

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