praevia

Her death certificate indicates that she collapsed and died of a massive hemorrhage caused by placenta praevia—an obstetric complication, where the placenta lies low in the uterus and can shear off from it, causing sometimes fatal bleeding.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

With all the "low activity" of placenta praevia and then low-lying placenta that turned out not to be a problem, I forgot that I can go for walks now that I'm not pregnant any more.

Oh yes, I can go for walks now baggyk 2006

The Journal of Repoduction just published a Norwegian study by a team at St Olavs University Hospital,that suggests that in-vitro fertilization (IVF) increased the risk of placenta previa (or, placenta praevia, as our friends at the BBC like to say) three-fold.

IVF May Increase Chances of Placenta Previa GreenFertility 2006

And, after the low-activity demanded by placenta praevia, the endless acid and nausea, blood loss, that hospital stay from hell and sleep deprivation followed by more sleep deprivation, recovery is not going as well.

The first 12 days baggyk 2005

This situation is called placenta praevia and frequently causes bleeding in the latter half of pregnancy.

Chapter 11 1995

Placenta praevia: A condition where the placenta lies low in the womb, blocking the passage of the baby during delivery.

Chapter 24 1995

* Sunt quaedam effecta interna ad conversionem sive regenerationem praevia, quae virtute verbi, spiritusque in nondum regeneratorum cordibus excitantur; qualia sunt notitia voluntatis divinae, sensus peccati, timor poenae; cogitatio de liberatione, spes aliqua veniae.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

That "twilight sleep" is contra-indicated (should not be used) in the following conditions: primary inertia (abnormally delayed and slow labor); expected short labor -- especially in women who have already borne children; when the fetal head is known to be large and the mother's pelvis small; placenta praevia (abnormal placental attachment); accidental hemorrhage; absent or doubtful fetal heart beat; when labor is already far advanced; and in threatened convulsions and eclampsia.

The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

Heywood Smith narrates the particulars of a case of premature labor at seven months in which rupture of the uterus occurred and, notwithstanding the fact that the case was complicated by placenta praevia, the patient recovered.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Thurston tells of a case in which Nature had apparently effected the separation of the placenta without alarming hemorrhage, the ease being one of placenta praevia, terminating favorably by natural processes.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896