Jess.Taylor21
mum and expecting #2
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Hi everyone,
Not sure if this is the right place to post or not, just looking for some friendly advise really.
Bit about me... My First pregnancy (a long awaited viable baby!) was very stressful and monitored and nothing like i imagined pregnancy to be like. At 20 weeks they discovered that Millie was measuring small and I had below average waters, from this point on I was monitored and scanned every 2-3 weeks until I was finally induced at 36 weeks due to further reduced waters and a drop in percentile. I gave birth to my gorgeous girl of 5lbs 5oz not bad considering she was estimated 4.5lbs!
Hubby and I weren't expecting to have another little miracle what with all the problems we had had trying to conceive Millie, so we decided to just leave it in mother natures hands, and then low and behold we fell pregnant again with baby no2!! Very excited but also anxious as we had so many problem with Millie. Everything up to date has gone smoothly I have been consultant led the whole way through again and have had my normal appointments at 12 & 20 weeks and the booked in a few extra growth scans at 28 weeks and 32 weeks. At the last scan (20 weeks) they were happy with baby and things were looking like I might get a normal natural birth rather than being induced. Unfortunately yesterdays scan (28 weeks) didn't go as well as we had anticipated
baby is now measuring small (under 10th percentile) so they have now labled me as suspected IUGR again, they also measured my Amniotic Fluids and they are on the lower end of normal too only having 9cms with the deepest pool being 3.8cms. My main concern however was the umbilical artery PI which was only on the 5th percentile and at 0.80. I have no idea what this means but from what i gather from google it means the flow through the umbilical to the baby isn't great. Does anyone have any experience with this that can help or give advice on what this may mean?
I did have a consultants appointment after my scan yesterday but it wasn't my consultant it was a on call registrar which i was a bit annoyed about as my consultant knows me and knows my previous history and worries with my daughter. I felt that the lady i saw yesterday sugar coated things in to sounding like they were fine although her notes suggested something completely different as did the sonographers reaction to such a low Umbilical Artery PI.
Its all very confusing and i'm now left worrying until my next scan at 32 weeks which I feel is a long time in between scans given my history of IUGR and also recurrent miscarriages.
Sorry for SUPER DUPER long post but if you made it to the end, any advice and experiences would be greatly appreciated
Jess xx
Not sure if this is the right place to post or not, just looking for some friendly advise really.
Bit about me... My First pregnancy (a long awaited viable baby!) was very stressful and monitored and nothing like i imagined pregnancy to be like. At 20 weeks they discovered that Millie was measuring small and I had below average waters, from this point on I was monitored and scanned every 2-3 weeks until I was finally induced at 36 weeks due to further reduced waters and a drop in percentile. I gave birth to my gorgeous girl of 5lbs 5oz not bad considering she was estimated 4.5lbs!
Hubby and I weren't expecting to have another little miracle what with all the problems we had had trying to conceive Millie, so we decided to just leave it in mother natures hands, and then low and behold we fell pregnant again with baby no2!! Very excited but also anxious as we had so many problem with Millie. Everything up to date has gone smoothly I have been consultant led the whole way through again and have had my normal appointments at 12 & 20 weeks and the booked in a few extra growth scans at 28 weeks and 32 weeks. At the last scan (20 weeks) they were happy with baby and things were looking like I might get a normal natural birth rather than being induced. Unfortunately yesterdays scan (28 weeks) didn't go as well as we had anticipated
baby is now measuring small (under 10th percentile) so they have now labled me as suspected IUGR again, they also measured my Amniotic Fluids and they are on the lower end of normal too only having 9cms with the deepest pool being 3.8cms. My main concern however was the umbilical artery PI which was only on the 5th percentile and at 0.80. I have no idea what this means but from what i gather from google it means the flow through the umbilical to the baby isn't great. Does anyone have any experience with this that can help or give advice on what this may mean? I did have a consultants appointment after my scan yesterday but it wasn't my consultant it was a on call registrar which i was a bit annoyed about as my consultant knows me and knows my previous history and worries with my daughter. I felt that the lady i saw yesterday sugar coated things in to sounding like they were fine although her notes suggested something completely different as did the sonographers reaction to such a low Umbilical Artery PI.
Its all very confusing and i'm now left worrying until my next scan at 32 weeks which I feel is a long time in between scans given my history of IUGR and also recurrent miscarriages.
Sorry for SUPER DUPER long post but if you made it to the end, any advice and experiences would be greatly appreciated
Jess xx
I managed to get another consultants appointment with my usual consultant but it's not till the 25th November so have a few weeks till then, I just have a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach, do you know what I mean? I can still feel little movemts here and there so I know baby is still active but I can't help but worry whether baby is getting enough from me :'( so worried!! Xx
