Oh, the irony.

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One of the biggest supporters I know of homebirth and attachment parenting . . . has a better-than-even chance of needing a c-section to deliver her second child. We're not talking inducement-to-section, here - we're talking placenta previa, where the choice is between a section and bleeding to death.

There's been a fallout, and I'm no longer welcome in her journal - but I wish her the best all the same.

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Not only that, but chances are she should be able to have a natural birth - since she's only at the midpoint of her pregnancy, there's a very good chance that the placenta will have moved by the time it comes to deliver the baby (only 10% of women in whom it's detected this early will still have it by their due date, according to this page (http://www.babycenter.com/refcap/pregnancy/pregcomplications/830.html)).

Obviously it's worrying, but I don't see how it's particularly ironic.