Growth scan concerns 36 weeks
Anyone had experience with growth scans? I’m finding the results fuelling me with anxiety! I now have to wait 2 weeks for another rescan at 38 weeks and growth clinic appointment with an obstetrician.
Basically looks like baby has been growing but sliding off the centiles, placenta and umbilical cord function are normal. At the last scan they couldn’t measure his head due to tricky positioning and they had to remeasure the femur multiple times, as they appear to have grown only a little bit in 4 weeks by 5.2mm which in centiles dropped from 41% to 17% and abdominal circumference dropped from 70% to 52%.
I must add my mum and me were both born quite small so was my daughter 2,5kg-2.9kg (under 5.5lb/6lb) despite BMI being on the high side. Not sure if it’s just genetics, I didn’t have growth scans with my daughter so can’t compare.
I had a consultant appointment yesterday and they didn’t feel any additional actions were required as a repeat scan and appt with growth clinic were booked. The only thing I can do in between is monitor baby movement closely, which doesn’t help as I end up over analysing everything!
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You can always decline additional scans if you feel they’re more stress than they’re worth - scans can be quite inaccurate at this stage
How many growth scans have you had ? If you’ve had multiple put them all together and you often see outliers , especially this late in pregnancy.
There’s so many factors like babies positioning and even who it is that scans you that can make things seem so big when in reality somewhere you just had a poor scan.
One of my scans recently showed my boy had got smaller since his last 🤨 then the next scan he was right back on his curve so that entire scan in my view was a right of . The same happened with my first aswell.
Honestly don’t take it to heart, babies are difficult and scans can be up to 15% different to reality.
I completely relate, also going for scans every 2 weeks and have been since around the 30 weeks point baby went from 17% down to 3% then up to 9.1 and then 9.9 and then on Monday we’ll be having our 38 weeks to see how we’re doing! Defo a nervous time as like you everything else is absolute fine baby is happy just on the smaller side with last weight prediction at 36wks being 5lb3oz, really hoping to be over the 10% as then I can head to birth centre (all being well) however if under, hospital are wanting to induce or c section at 39 wks so emotions are a bit all over the place! Just know you’re not alone 💕 and it really can change a lot in just two weeks, and as my midwife has been telling me other than the % going down and baby being smaller they are still healthy and happy 🥰
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