Today is 32 weeks and 6 days and we went for our scan and MRI results.
The actual scan took nearly an hour because as usual the baby would not stay still and at one point actually kicked the scanning probe so hard it lost contact with my tummy! It also seemed that every time they just got into view what they wanted to measure, baby then moved completely. I did warn them before I started the baby does not like being scanned and would not cooperate!
The MRI results have come back ‘normal’ and with the scan today show the ‘puddle’ that has been the problem in the brain has stayed the same size, while the rest of the brain and head circumference has grown. So the potential problem is still listed as mild / borderline but there are no other abnormalities and the technical bit they wrote in the report was ‘the findings are most likely to be variants of normal with a good outcome’.
The only thing they wanted to do was do a double check for down’s syndrome via an amniocentesis. This Robert and I had already discussed and had said no way, so when they mentioned it today we just said “noâ€Â, they asked our reasons and I basically said this baby is coming in around 7 weeks, so what does it matter if it has or hasn’t got down’s, especially given our tiny risk factor at the other scans. So they mentioned that in the UK you can still have a termination at this late stage if it was a positive test result. But as we are keeping this baby no matter what, they respected it. They also thought we were strange for still not finding out the sex!
I still have too much amniotic fluid surrounding the baby and the baby was breech today. They are going to do another scan in 3 weeks to check the amount of fluid again and have mentioned that possibly the baby might have an ‘oesophageal obstruction’ which would need a tube to clear it straight after birth, but I don’t think it has, I just make fluid and its only slightly too much.
Now for the fun bits – the scanning unit actually had a 4d feature so they flicked to the 4d bit and we got to see the baby’s face in real time 3d and they printed us out 2 photos of it. Apparently not all of their units do it, and they don’t advertise the fact but I think the scanner people (by this time I was on the 2nd doctor prodding and the consultant had already been called to come and double check the other twos findings) got bored so had a look. I think the baby looks more like Robert than me!
The baby is already quite heavy at 2330 g / 5.13 lbs (I was only 6lbs 6 at birth!) with a head circumference of 31.2cm and is going to be tall and perhaps lanky with its femur being 6.66cm long and its humerus 5.67cm.
We also saw the consultant who told me off for not going to hospital with my sinus cold at the start of the week – I knew it was sinuses and nothing to worry about, but she likes to worry on my behalf! And I see her in 4 weeks and then probably again on the labour ward.
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. Baby looks a real cutie pie! Are you sensing boy still? Don't blame you for not wanting the amnio. Hope you can relax a lot more now and enjoy those last few weeks.
