Trish

Meanwhile, back in the OR, Trish decided to keep things interesting. The placenta had grown/fused itself to the wall of the uterus, a rare condition called placenta accreta that we didn’t know about. During a normal C-section, the placenta is moved easily out of the way. But this time, because of the accreta, it had to be cut apart to get the baby out. This caused a lot of bleeding for some one who already had a hard time keeping her IVs open and had a low red blood cell level. Then, the placenta had to be scraped from the wall of the uterus, causing even more bleeding. She received four units of blood and two units of plasma during the surgery. She was in there for more than two hours.