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placenta bands

by racinghorse, Mar 15, 2005 12:00AM

Tags: placenta, Pregnancy, maternal, Baby, uterus

Has anyone heard of placenta bands? I'm 16 wks, and a band was noted at the bottom of my uterus, its not near the baby.

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by robin1979, Mar 15, 2005 12:00AM

What type of band did they say you have?

by nanakay, Mar 16, 2005 12:00AM

i found this site seemed to explain all the possibilities very well (with pictures of actually u/s)

http://www.obgyn.net/us/cotm/9909/bands.htm

good luck
~nanci

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