Every woman expecting a baby knows how important the placenta is. Despite the fact that this is a temporary body, it is impossible to overestimate its significance. Through the placenta, oxygen and nutrition enter the baby. After the next scheduled study on an ultrasound machine, sometimes women are informed that the placenta is located on the front wall of the uterus. So what does this mean? Is it the norm? And won't it hurt the baby?
Of course, any specialist can assure that the located placenta along the front wall is not a pathology. This will in no way affect the course of pregnancy and the birth process. By the way, the placenta is such a kind of organ that can attach as and wherever it wants. Most often, it is located in pregnant women nevertheless along the back wall of the uterus. In rare cases, it can attach to the bottom of the uterus. And sometimes for unknown reasons, it is located at the exit from the uterus, thereby partially or completely blocking the baby’s path for independent birth. This already applies to pathology, in which case a planned
cesarean section is prescribed
.In general, if the placenta is located on the front wall, then do not worry much. In the first trimester from the doctor you can hear about too close presentation to the exit of the uterus. But this is no reason to worry. If this diagnosis was made in 6-8 weeks, then for 25-26 weeks no one will remember about it. As pregnancy develops, the placenta rises. Therefore, during childbirth, she will not at all interfere with the baby.
But still, what could be the dangerous location of the placenta on the front wall? There is one caveat: the thing is that with a cesarean section (if needed), the incision will take place just at the location of the placenta. This is fraught with complications such as bleeding. But before the operation, doctors specify the location and try not to bring to profuse blood loss.
This is perhaps the only thing you can worry about (but not too much!) If you have a placenta located on the front wall. It is worth noting another important fact. During repeated pregnancy, the placenta is often attached just in place of the old cesarean section on the uterus. This is the only feature worth paying attention to during subsequent pregnancies.
A woman expecting a baby should know about how the placenta is located - on the front wall or on the back. And also to clarify in advance whether this will interfere with childbirth. But, as a rule, if a woman has a risk of any problems, then she is placed in the hospital a few weeks before the expected date of delivery. This is necessary to prevent complications from both the child and the woman. So it can be argued that a pregnancy with an anterior placenta will not be at least somewhat different from all the others. Childbirth will pass without complications and end with the appearance of a healthy, strong child.
In some countries, there are very interesting customs associated with the placenta. After birth, they do not take her away, but give her to her young mother. According to custom, it must be taken to your home and buried under a tree. But in our country it is examined and then disposed of.