Re: tained Placenta

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At Tue, 20 Jun 2000, d wrote: >
>I would like some information about retained placenta. I am pregnant
>with my second child and am concerned about having a retained placenta
>again.
>With my first pregnancy I had slightly elevated blood pressure (140/90)
>and was made to lie down on my left side with a magnesium drip once I
>was admitted to the hospital. My daughter was born without any pain
>medication, with vacuum extraction after almost three hours of pushing.
>I breastfed immediately, but was told that I had a retained placenta and
>they had to go in and manually extract it. After the first attempt and
>much screaming on my part, they gave me intravenous nubain and went in
>and extracted it. I then had hemorrhaging resulting in a blood loss of
>40% of blood volume.
>As I understand it, my mother had similar problems on her second and
>third pregnancies, with the second pregnancy resulting in uterus
>prolapse.
>Obviously, this concerns me and I'd like some more information on how I
>could prevent this from happening again. Any suggestions?

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