There, she lives with Jeff, the man she wed in October 2010. The happy couple learned they were expecting their second child together four years after their wedding. Turlitzi’s pregnancy initially progressed without incident. The issue, however, significantly worsened towards the start of her third trimester.
Her ultrasound pictures began to seem odd at about week 28 of her pregnancy. They were unable to distinguish between her placenta, uterus, and bladder. Doctors couldn’t distinguish between the expecting mother’s placenta, uterus, or bladder at the moment they checked her. Turlitzi was later determined to have placenta percreta, a more serious type of placenta accreta, which might have disastrous effects on her.
“My placenta had perverted. The placenta may pass through the uterine wall entirely and emerge from the opposite side, where it invades adjacent organs. A typical pregnancy involves the placenta developing within the uterus. After a woman gives birth, it joins to the uterine wall before being flushed out by the body. It’s more complicated if the mother has a placenta creta, however.
This is because the illness causes the placenta to expand very quickly. As a consequence, the placenta bends into the uterine wall, necessitating manual removal by medical professionals after delivery. Hemorrhaging then often results from this, however. However, accreta instances were relatively rare 60 years ago. In fact, just one in every 30.000 American births in the 1950s was impacted by the illness.
Today, it happens in one out of every 500 deliveries in the United States, making it much less uncommon. The frequency of cesarean sections is one explanation for this. Women who have undergone C-sections in the past often have uterine scars now. The scar tissue and the new placenta may then form a strong connection, leading to accreta.
By Caesarean section, Turlitzi herself had given birth to her first son. Additionally, the hemorrhaging brought on by accreta may sometimes be fatal. In fact, one out of every 14 women with accreta in the US will pass away. It goes without saying that Turlitzi’s diagnosis terrified her. Turlitzi was forced to deliver her baby at 33 weeks due to the severity of her condition.
So, at Stanford Hospital in July 2014, a group of 30 medical experts assisted in the birth of her second son, Leo. Thankfully, the little infant was in excellent health. In reality, physicians didn’t find anything horrific until after Turlitzi had given the baby. “On July 16, 2014, I was escorted into the main Stanford Operating Room with a team of 30 multidisciplinary surgeons and nurses, and they successfully delivered my son Leo. I was 33 weeks pregnant at the time. He performed quite well.
As a result, the invasion was considerably worse than anticipated when it came time to evaluate the placenta. The doctors were previously aware that Turlitzi had percreta, a very severe form of accreta. In certain situations, the placenta might infiltrate neighboring internal organs as it develops through the uterine wall. However, the condition of Turlitzi’s placenta was much worse than anticipated when doctors arrived to examine it. That was due to Turlitzi’s placenta’s unfathomably rapid growth.
The doctors wondered how they would ever be able to remove the tissue without seriously harming the new mother as they assessed the extent of the tissue’s growth. But in the end, they made a seemingly absurd choice. They made the choice to keep Turlitzi’s placenta in situ. The placenta was still intact and within my body when they stopped and sewed me up, Turlitzi said. They were concerned that I might get infected or begin to bleed out of nowhere.
However, there was also the possibility that the placenta might begin to be reabsorbed by the body. They made the rare decision to cancel the surgery-related mission. Therefore, they came to a halt and stitched me up with the placenta intact and still within my body. They were concerned that I might have an infection or begin hemorrhaging on my own. However, there was also the possibility that the placenta might begin to be reabsorbed by the body.
Maybe everything will work out on its own in the end. We just lacked knowledge. Thus, Turlitzi was essentially a medical experiment in all respects. She said, “I felt like a ticking time bomb about to go off. And to make things worse, the mother still hadn’t met her adorable little kid after three days.
“I felt like a ticking time bomb about to go off. After three days in the ICU, they must have done some real behind-the-scenes cooperation to have me moved to the F3 unit. Her physicians as a consequence made some calls and set up a special midnight visit. Turlitzi acknowledged that the momentous occurrence significantly boosted her morale when she looked back on it. It included something for which I needed to recover and return, she said.
“My team’s sensitivity, ability to understand the wider picture, and willingness to just make things happen gave me the morale boost I needed. I had something I needed to recover from and return to. However, things deteriorated before they improved. Turlitzi’s body started to develop bruises after six weeks in the hospital. The warning symptoms were obvious, and a scan later showed something concerning.
Turlitzi’s liver was in reality on the verge of failing completely. “After spending six weeks in the hospital, I suddenly began to bruise all over. I was on the verge of liver failure, according to a blood test.” At that point, doctors decided to do surgery. They thus removed her placenta and a few extraneous organs during a lengthy eight-hour treatment, while also repairing the damage to several vital organs.
Turlitzi required 26 units of blood to be stabilized at this time. Leo was seven weeks old when I had an eight-hour emergency surgery. In order to stabilize myself, I would need the removal of certain useless organs, the repair, and intervention of other crucial ones, as well as the transfusion of 26 units of blood products. Furthermore, it was uncertain for a while whether the mother of two would survive. Fortunately, she later made a complete recovery.
She will always be grateful for the skilled treatment Stanford Healthcare provided for her and her child. “I felt certain that I was at the proper spot. They were going to take every action available to them. Leo was a preemie, but you’d never even know it, the pleased mother said. We’re very sure that my mutant placenta gave my one-year-old, who is feisty and tenacious, some X-Men abilities.
The good news is that Turlitzi may go on with her life and savor every second she spends with her family. She really now volunteers at Stanford Hospital as a sign of her thanks. “As I’ve studied more about CI care and become a volunteer at Stanford, I’ve got the thought, ‘Oh, that’s the magic,’ as soon as I read about it. They’re obviously succeeding and succeeding in a sincere manner, so they really have things laid out in how to do it. And she will now be able to see her children grow up because of the skill of our physicians.