?? two placentas for a singleton??

ok im confused,

what would cause a person to have 2 placentas for one baby?

this just seems really odd.
i can think maybe it was twins and the second baby has passed and been absorbed but the babies placenta continued to grow..

I have never heard of it kawazuki. Maybe someone else can offer more.

yeh neither have i

just found out someone i know wo is pregnant has to have a c-section because bub is breech and there are 2 placentas...
very odd

I just googled it and it seems that its not rare, but not common either, one in 3000 women will have a second placenta, is some quite interesting info on twinning incidences and sole survivors or twinning conceptions.
There is also a thing where the placenta appears to be two but is only really double lobed and is connected by vessels and arteries etc.

a friend of mine here had this....ill explain more when not typing 1 handed with 1 finger

thank you ladies
i just find the human body very interesting

i didn't bother with google as i know trusty BB would know :D

My sister quite a few years ago now told me she had this happen with 1 of her pregnancies, but that it was origionally twins... but when it comes to my sister, I never know what to believe when it comes from her mouth so I don't know how true she was being IYKWIM!... I haddn't heard of it before then so I didn't really give it another thought.... until now.

With DS, I had an extra bit of placenta. It was like a smaller placenta sitting on the normal placenta. It wasn't noticed until DS was born. The ob sent it off for testing but it all came back normal, and they said it was just an extra bit and that was that.

I had a twin prgnancy that is now a singleton pregnancy, just the one placenta, albeit is small and in a crappy location, but it still doing the job :)

Sounds interesting though :)

i was hoping you would come in beema.. :D

thank you
i dont know alot about the pregnancy except bub is being delivered today.

id love to see ultrasound pics of it.. and what it looks like once delivered ( placenta that is ) this stuff really gets the nurse in me going :D

No worries hun.

I would assume that the placenta of Flickers twin, broke down after the sac ruptured. They were two separate sacs one on either side of the uterine septum that they had separate placenta's and that Firefly's had completely attached to the septum, rather than the side of the uterus and the septum like Flickers has, that way it was able to get enough blood flow to grow.

As some of the bleeding and clots ended up being reabsorded it is hard to be conclusive about it....

i hope all goes well today and I would be fascinated to see photos too, my own medical interest coming out!