My name is Jennie. I'm a wife and a mother. I have been married to the man of my dreams, Trever, for 9 wonderful years. We have 5 beautiful daughters who fill our lives with joy and excitement. We just had our 6th child. Our son Caleb.

I was diagnosed with a rare condition called Placenta Accreta along with Placenta Previa. Accreta is a condition where the placenta attaches to the scar tissue in the uterus. It will often continue to grow to deeper tissue (increta) and even through the uterus attaching to other organs(percreta). I ended up having an 11 hour surgery, including a hystorectomy, and bladder repair. I received 7 units of blood and blood parts. (This is a lot of blood loss for my surgeons, but minimal blood loss to those who are not as experienced in these deliveries. I spent 36 hours in the ICU after surgery. I have also had many other complications afterwards including another minor surgery 2 weeks later. These complications are somewhat normal for the type of surgery I had.

I had a team of specialists doing my surgery. Obgyns, Gyno-oncologists, trauma surgeons, urologists and anesthesiologists. This team has specialized in techniques helping with minimal blood loss. Those with accreta , loose large amounts of blood because the placenta cannot detach naturally at delivery.

My goal is to help save women's lives by giving this terrible condition a voice. So many are ignorant to its fatal attack. Doctors and women alike, need to be educated about Accreta. Many have never even heard of it. The numbers are on the rise because of so many women choosing to have c-sections when it isn't necessary. Not all women can avoid it, but many can. Please help me give Accreta a voice, by sharing the information in this blog. (There are numerous posts with information on Accreta as well as the Accreta team who took such great care of me.)

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Happy Valentine's Day!

Sorry to leave everyone hanging, from my previous post. I have been really weird, emotionally since Monday, and I wasn't sure what to write. I'm doing much better today. I have been scared to move, for fear of having another bleeding spree. But since I wasn't doing anything, but laying in bed when it happened, I have just been scared period. I almost wish I could say I did something to trigger it, but that's just the crazy ness of Accreta. Sometimes nothing triggers these major bleeding attacks. Except for everything inside stretching and growing like normal.

I'm still in shock over it all. I always thought over doing it would be the issue... But that was the exact reason I am here. It has a mind of its own.

Because I spotted most of the pregnancy, and started these episodes so early... Most Accreta patients seem to start these closer to 32 weeks from what I understand... They want to move the delivery date up. We were scheduled for march 29th. (35 weeks and 2 days) now they want to deliver on march 11. 32 weeks and 5 days. A lot of the team is away this week at a conference, so it may be a few days to make sure each part of the team can be here. But I am scheduled. Don't worry, there are enough members to deliver if we had to this week, but I'm praying for no emergencies, cause I really like and trust some of those that are out of town.

The idea for moving things up, is to make things better for me and my body. It's a lot harder on my body to do an emergency surgery, than to have it scheduled. So here's to no more episodes, and delivery on march 11th. Happy anniversary to us! :-) not ideal to have major surgery on our anniversary, but what a great gift, to welcome our son into the world.

My love of my life is headed up to see me soon. He has a special dinner planned for us. I'm so excited to spend some time with him. I hope everyone has a great valentines day today. Don't forget to hug your loved ones. You never know when you will be separated from them!
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  1. UnknownFebruary 15, 2013 at 12:28 PM

    I was wondering how you are doing. I find myself checking your blog everyday. Sorry it has been so difficult for you. You are such a sweet heart! I wish you the very best!.

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