Holding On Too Tight: Placenta Accreta Survival Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe placenta accreta spectrum, most beginning with a history of caesareans, fibroid surgery or IVF that nobody connected to the risk until a routine scan took too long. Others were told a low placenta would move up on its own, or found out only on the operating table. Writers describe the weeks of high-risk care that followed: MRI scans, specialist centres hours or a flight away, long admissions after bleeding, and planned surgery with a large team and blood ready. There is the caesarean hysterectomy, the bags of blood counted afterwards, bladder involvement, intensive care, and babies taken straight to the neonatal unit. Writers describe declining hysterectomy for conservative management, a second operation weeks later, a smaller form of accreta, and planning surgery without accepting blood. Contributors include partners in waiting rooms, a midwife who became the patient, a doctor on the wrong side of the desk, and family members who found donors. Later chapters cover a daughter who did not survive, the family that never came, a sister who carried a third child, months of exhaustion, delayed grief, medical bills, and a later pregnancy after accreta.

Who it's for

For anyone newly diagnosed with placenta accreta, increta or percreta, partners and families facing the surgery date with them, and clinicians who want the patient's view of high-risk care.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 283 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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