Location of placenta using doppler

[JFTB1177]

Is it possible to find the location of your placenta (not just anterior or posterior but right or left as well) at 9 weeks using a hand-held doppler?

Just wanted to add that I also have heard the baby's hb since exactly 8 weeks using the doppler.

[CherryBomb]

I wonder about this too, not so much with placement, but with discerning between placental sounds and FHT??

[Tresa]

My midwife has been able to get a pretty accurate guess with both of my babies using the doppler. I think absolutely it's possible.

[Family4Christ]

Can someone explain how to do this? I won't have having an u/s with this one until after 20 weeks. I had PP with my first, so I'd like to do this later on.

[MoonStarFalling]

At my 12 week u/s the tech told me the uterus is too small to know where the placenta is because it's wrapped around the uterus.

[JFTB1177]

Originally Posted by Tresa

My midwife has been able to get a pretty accurate guess with both of my babies using the doppler. I think absolutely it's possible.

Please do tell! I always hear my baby's hb on the left, with the doppler ever-so-slightly angled to the right, but more pointing down. I'm dying to know if my placenta is anterior or posterior (esp b/c I want another VBAC) and if it's on the left or right.

Moonstarfalling- are you sure?? I've talked to women on other boards who were told exactly where their placentas were at 12 weeks!

[Family4Christ]

I'm dying to know if my placenta is anterior or posterior (esp b/c I want another VBAC)

Mama, what does an anterior or posterior placenta have to do with VBAC? I didn't know there was any correlation. Can you explain more please?

[CherryBomb]

Anterior placenta shouldn't affect a VBAC. The only concern with them really is that if you would need a c/s, they'd have to cut through the placenta to get to baby.

[JFTB1177]

Originally Posted by Family4Christ

Mama, what does an anterior or posterior placenta have to do with VBAC? I didn't know there was any correlation. Can you explain more please?

I remember reading (when I was planning my HBAC with DS2) that if the placenta is anterior there is a risk of it adhering to the c/s scar and that could cause problems... luckily DS2 was posterior (DS1 had been anterior).

[Family4Christ]

I remember reading (when I was planning my HBAC with DS2) that if the placenta is anterior there is a risk of it adhering to the c/s scar and that could cause problems... luckily DS2 was posterior (DS1 had been anterior).

Ahhhh, hadn't considered that! Thank you!