Ferrals the worst I have seen was a woman who was admitted into hospital with bleeding at 37weeks. She had been sitting on the ward for 2days with small PV loss but it was bright. They were trying to pushy her to 38weeks to do the c/s which was so ridiculous. Anyway at about 2am (when no one is about where I work theatre staff have to be called in from home, Obs etc) she had a sudden large bleed. Of course at that time everyone had to be called in which takes time to set a theatre up etc and by the time bub was out she had lost 2litres. Bub did well no problems but mum ended up in intensive care for the night so not long but she still went there and obviously had multiple units of blood. She also made a full recovery but was very weak and pale looking it was so aweful when it could have been prevented. It wasn't like bub was preterm. I seen a few bubs need abit of help to breath once there born for a few minutes but TBH its from the general anaethetic because the c/s was an emergency not semi-elective not the PP. If it were me and I had a grade 4 I'd be asking for a c/s at 37weeks but thats me and both my kids have been early so I'd be concerned the extra week would make it way more likely for a bleed to happen. Its much nicer to have a c/s when you know its needed in a calm, predictable environment over an emergency at goodness knows what hour. But then at 37weeks bub is more likely to have feeding difficulties, jaundice and a longer stay in hospital but it still would probably only be around the length of time you would stay after a c/s anyway. My placenta last time was 16mm from the cervix so its moved up but still not high enough but its obviously on its way up so I'm sure by 34weeks it will be high enough away.
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