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[quote=Anonymous]NP here.  I had a marginal cord insertion with one of my twins.  Sometimes they would call it velamentous, sometimes just marginal, so I was never quite sure which it was exactly!  I am a physician, and even with all the information I had available to me from some physician specific websites, and from very frank discussions with my OB and the high risk OB, I was still at times confused, and always a bit on edge.  For me, this diagnosis meant some very close monitoring of the baby's growth.  There was also weekly monitoring of blood flow to the baby.  Some weeks we would see increased resistance to blood flow, which would prompt the high risk OB to put me on modified bed rest.  Other weeks it would be better.  There were no diet restrictions.  Towards the end of the pregnancy, I had to go in for twice weekly monitoring (which is still better than being admitted for absolute bed rest, something they considered a couple of times!), with stress testing done on a weekly basis (just another ultrasound, not all that stressful!).  Every visit, we would be reassured that the baby was growing and that the baby was in no obvious distress, which would buy us a few more days in the womb.  In the end, I made it to full term and an eventual induction.  I did end up with a C/S due to some apparent distress on baby B's part during labor, but this may have been due in part to the twin factor, and some other unrelated issues with baby B.  The section went perfectly fine, and both babies are doing great...comparing one to the other, it is obvious that the marginal cord insertion had no lasting effects :-) .  My best piece of advice to those of you going through this is to just take it one visit at a time.  Try to relax as much as possible (emotionally and physically), and to rest whenever you can, since this will help deliver the most bloodflow to your baby.  The one redeeming thing in all this was the many opportunities to see the babies![/quote]

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