Anterior Placenta’s

Ok.....so I had a search and found a few threads, but some where really old, so thought I'd start a new one as there is a question I have for the ladies who wrote in the thread now that they have had their babies


I have an anterior placenta....and even after already having 3 children, this is something that has never been bought to my attention before. I now know that it 'can' result in feeling baby move later and less often.

But I read somewhere that there is a higher chance of baby be posterior. Was this the case with you ladies who had an anterior placenta.

I remember with my first (who is now 16)....she was posterior and I had these exercises to do a few weeks before she was born, and it turned her over. But I have no idea what the placenta was doing.

So can you please share your stories?

Thankyou :).

I was one who asked about it last year in a thread when I was told I had one. Although I couldn't feel any movement until about 24 weeks, I'm quite overweight so that might have been a factor too. Once I felt movement, I felt and saw lots of it.

Livvy was LOA every single time I had a scan, when my mw had a feel and at the birth so bub may not necessarily be posterior.

The labour went fine with Livvy coming down nicely and everything but she did have a very short cord, I don't know if that had anything to do with the anterior placenta. I had only just started pushing when I was taken for an emergency c-sect due to her heartrate shooting way up which nobody could explain but I doubt it was because the placenta.

You'll be fine though and all the medical people I dealt with made it seem like not a serious issue as long as it wasn't lying down low in the uterus.

Ditto, anterior placenta and a long posterior labour as well. Fortunately Eva moved position near the end of my labour (MW gave me some tablet to take while in labour, to help her move from posterior and it seemed to help - no idea what it was!). I had a vontouse delivery in the end.

I have had 3 babies and all have been very quick births and thought this one might be too....but now not so sure lol.

I know labour hurts, but does posterior means it hurts even more?

Mum2Sam - thanks, I didn't know about how they tend to face.

Like you Freesia, I am also overweight and have 'worried' that I won't feel as much movement. I am 22 weeks and only really started feeling baby in last week or 2....and then its not too often.

I'm also being inducedat 38 weeks due to gestational diabetes.

I had an anterior placenta with Lauren. I had no kicks at all at the front of my tummy, just around the sides. She also turned posterior during labour, I felt her turn and was stressing!! I tried everything during my 27 hour labour to get her to turn but she wouldn't budge! I ended up with an emergency C section as she was a big baby and posterior and had a flexed head (she was coming down with her forehead and face as opposed to the top of her head) there was no possible way she could fit out other than through the "sunroof"!!

I can't comment on whether labour hurts 'more' being posterior having only done it once, but I don't actually remember contraction pain, just extreme back pain the whole time - thank god for epidurals!

My back pain was pretty bad from the posterior labour, but I didn't have an epidural until they told me I was going in for a c section! Wished I had asked for it alot sooner had I known I would "have" to have one in the end anyway

OW! that sounds painful nzpiper.
I have had 3 very quick labours - even 2 with an epi, but am a little concerned about the posterior thing now! But its still early days I guess, but judging by the sounds of what you all say, baby will probably be posterior :(