placenta accreta

Today we have a mailbag podcast, our 38th.

What does the fox say? The topics we will be covering today are continuous glucose monitors for gestational diabetes, umbilical cord edema, anterior placentas and fetal movement, environmental exposure to chemotherapy and pregnancy, and a history of placenta accreta spectrum.

Thank you to our wonderful listeners for sending in today's questions.

They are Hope, Kylie, Tina, and two anonymous listeners.

And then they would just, you know, ask to maybe be switched to another unit or have another sort of job requirement during that time period.

All right, interesting stuff.

Last question today is from Tina, and it's about a history of placenta accreta spectrum.

Hi, Dr.

Brittany unfortunately experienced more miscarriages after her second son, but finally did conceive her third son, which involved a difficult VBAC attempt and a baby born with a heart murmur.

Finally, Brittany dives into the deep details of her fourth pregnancy, one which was complicated early on by a very serious condition called placenta accreta, which led to anxiety and bleeding throughout pregnancy, and an early 33-week C-section.

The difficulties did not end there, as she did have to undergo an emergency hysterectomy and experience the hardship and heartbreak of a NICU stay.

Brittany really opens up about the mental struggles of having a baby in the NICU, the fear of leaving them, and the hardship of splitting your time between the hospital and your kids at home.

We discussed how Placenta Acreta spectrum has evolved and continues to evolve and some of the recent confusion and noise around Acreta.

Naomi and I are really excited about today's episode where we are going to be talking about something that is really close to our heart and something that has been coming up a lot more in the last couple of years, which is some of the confusion and controversies around placenta accreta spectrum.

And we are joined by three really amazing guests that have huge expertise in this area from different parts of the globe.

So we have Eric Albarró and Yalda with us.

And so it went from that to identifying these difficult placenta delivery as being a creta and ending up doing a peripartum hysterectomy.

Now, I find having reviewed hundreds of papers for the guidelines and read them in depth, which is rare because people usually only read the abstract or the conclusion of the abstract.

That is such priority in the different type of placenta accreta, which is why we came up actually during the process of the FIGO guideline with placenta accreta spectrum, because they were all sort of terminology before that, but very confusing for the patient and quite scary.

The one that I remember and which I really tried to get rid of as quickly as possible was morbidly adhering placenta.