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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.With both my pregnancies I had to have additional scans to monitor the position of the placenta. With my 1st, 15 years ago, as ratbag states, my womb grew sufficiently to take the placenta with it as it were and I went on to have a natural delivery.
With my second, only 18 months ago (!), at 32 weeks, I was told I would "almost certainly" have to have a C section, but would be scanned again at 36 weeks to be sure. We spent an anxious 4 weeks worrying how we'd cope post operation (we lived in an upper flat at the time & I also had to drive my son to school 7 miles away as there wasn't public transport he could use).
Thank goodness, at 36 weeks things had moved again and I was given the go ahead for a natural labour.
However, fate hadn't finished with me yet .... after 21 hours of labour, seemingly getting nowhere fast, and already "epiduralled" I was wheeled into the operating theatre for a section ...... thinking, why the heck have I just gone through all that anxiety, then relief, then 21 hours of pain, only to end up with a C section after all ....... when, at the very last minute, my daughter decided to put in an appearance all of a sudden and was, finally, born naturally .... albeit in the glaring lights, with loads of people milling about - though my lovely midwife did tell them to get out when I objected, and on an extremely narrow operating trolley with me flat on my back !!!!
Sorry for going on - but things can turn out the way you don't expect them to.
As an aside, my partner was most peeved to find that the sex ban we'd been told to observe during the time the placenta was very low had all been in vain !!
More seriously, I was told (when I still "had" a low lying placenta that I would be induced at about 38 weeks to hopefully pre-empt going into labour naturally. If I had gone into labour before that time, I was to get myself to hospital double quick !
I had placenta praevia with my first pregnancy. I had strong feelings about natural childbirth so I was allowed a trial labour (not induced) and ended up having an emergency caesarian. With my 2nd pregnancy I again had placenta praevia and this time the placenta was completely covering the opening and there was no way I could give birth naturally. I had an elective caesarian at 36 weeks. I was told that in the last few weeks of pregnancy the placenta is not likely to move.
At the end of the day the health of the mother and baby is the main priority and I would advise your daughter to be guided by the obstetrician. I could have lost my first baby by being stubborn about wanting a natural birth. (For the record, although I had my 2nd baby 4 weeks early, he was a strapping 9lb!!)