Hi ladies!
Well yesterday was my 20 week scan. It was good, but I've left with a few worries...
She didn't get the detailed images she needed of its face and heart and wants to rescan in the next 2 weeks. She said it was just "the way it was laid", BUT when she first started she was saying things out loud like "2 arms and 2 hands, 2 legs and 2 feet. I can see its stomach, 2 kidneys, a bladder..." And she said "I can see two eyes, and a nose..." But then later said she couldn't see the face in detail and needed to rescan. And I saw at one point her looking closely at the heart, she briefly switched the red and blue contrasting on, and I saw a real close up of one of the valves. But then said she couldn't see the details of the heart due to baby's position...
Now I know I'm reading too much into this, and that it is normal for loads of women to be rescanned for heart details etc. BUT, of course I can't help but think about the possibilities.
I am a paeds nurse, so I know what the possibilities are - probably not a good thing! But the thing that's in my head is the possibility of a cleft lip (which is absolutely not the end of the world, and we'd be fine with that) because I know that's bound to be one of the things they are looking for if they want "details" of the face. And then when I thought back to the start of the scan when she was rhyming off all the things she could see, and she definitely tailed off after "I can see 2 eyes, and nose...." And she didn't comment on the mouth.
I know, I honestly do, that things are most likely to be completely fine, but I think I'm gonna worry about it until I see evidence that I'm wrong!
Also, the profile pic she gave us is not brilliant, and at 20 weeks people usually get a lovely outline of a little nose and mouth. Whereas what she gave us has got a funny facial profile, and it looks like a "double outline" of its face... Again increasing my worries about it being cleft.
And they are just my thoughts about the face, without thinking abt the heart (which I'm not even letting myself THINK about!)
I'm going to attach a pic so u can see what I mean about the face....
There was something good though. I've been taking aspirin since my second miscarriage, which I'm sure u all know about being a precautionary measure in case of the "sticky blood" condition. After "only" 2 losses in the uk they don't do any testing, so I have no idea whether I do have it or not, but I was told to take it anyway as it couldn't do any harm. So of course I do not know whether that aspirin has helped or not, but so far so good. Maybe a coincidence, maybe not...
Anyway, if a woman in known to have the sticky blood problem then they take the aspirin most of the way through the pregnancy, then near the end they stop it, and usually have heparin injections towards the end. And I believe that with this condition people's losses are usually very early in pregnancy, or very late. So with this in mind I've been trying to get some advice on when to/ whether to stop the aspirin. No one really wanted to commit to an answer for me. But my worry was that if I DO have it then I need to know, because I'd then need the heparin treatment later in pregnancy.
So I've harped on about this at every appointment, and at my 12 weeks scan she said she'd make a note of my questions and that when I come back at 20 weeks she'd fit me in for 5 mins with the consultant to speak to him about it. Well of course because of what she could/could not see yesterday I was in the scan for quite a while, and it was after 5 when I came out so of course the clinic had finished. But I asked again about whether they would test me (we'd have paid to have it done to be honest) and she said she'd book me a slot with the consultant when I come back for my rescan. So I was happy with that. But then she went out to speak to someone else, and came back and said "I'll take the blood now so that when u come back in a couple of weeks and u see the consultant he will be able to give u the results". So I was really pleased with that.
Also with it being after 5 the receptionist had gone home so we weren't able to make the appointment for the rescan or consultant appointment, so now I'm waiting for the date to come through the post, and then just a wait until we go back and hopefully get a whole load of positive answers!
So, NOT to have sticky blood, and the have a perfect little face and heart is my plan.... Fingers crossed!
Bloody hell, nothing is straightforward with me and babies.... Or should i say "US" and babies, since we r all here in this thread for similar reasons....
I'll keep u all posted x
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The pic is very sweet...I do see the halo around her profile, but could it be because she was moving when they took the picture?
