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Hello,
I am so sorry for your losses. I too just lost my little baby boy. Delivered him stillborn at 24 weeks 3/10/09. All previous ultrasounds looked great and the extensive testing they did around 18 weeks all looked perfect. Pathology report of the placenta and cord showed a hypercoiled cord (4 times more than normal) and the OB who delivered me said that the cord narrowed where it entered his belly button, so they put those two together and said it appears that the cord just kept on coiling until it ultimately pinched off at his belly button. I have 5 other children (one set of twins) and of course, all the others were normal. I would really like to know if there's anything out there that says what they think causes hypercoiling. Does anyone know?

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