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Hey girls, I’m 35 weeks on Friday and had an extra scan yesterday to check placenta placement.. the placement was fine but the baby measured at 98th centile for weight, head and tummy. They always have measured big but yesterday they seemed more concerned. They’re testing me for the third time for diabetes (the first 2 were negative). I said I was worried something was wrong and she replied “we are too, that’s why we’re doing the glucose check again and having an extra scan”.. she also said try not to panic and that none of this is my fault.. it made me think that I should be panicking?! Has anyone else had this?

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I had this done! Had a scan at 28 weeks - found out that baby was abit big and was already under 4 pounds.
Had two negative tests for diabetes but then my third one came back positive. I’m now 34 weeks and baby was 5.5 at 32 weeks scan x

My first baby was the same they predicted he would be 10-11lbs and had me doing the finger pricking for weeks but my results never really suggested GD. Turns out he wasn’t as big as they thought after making me have an induction at 38 weeks to get him out early he was 7.13lbs.

Had this with my first, kept doing gd tests, all negative, estimated to be 10-11lbs so pushed for an induction. I didn’t really want an induction but they scared me with mentioning shoulders getting stuck and tearing blah blah baby ended up being 7lbs10 and the induction put him in so much stress he needed resuscitated on arrival. The measurements can be so wildly off I wouldn’t worry, I wish I hadn’t panicked and let my body do what it needed to do x

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Drop in percentile / suggested induction

I had my 36 week growth scan yesterday and baby boy has dropped quite a bit in percentile over the last 8 weeks.

For context, I get a few more scans because I’m coeliac but since it’s diagnosed and I know how to manage my diet, it should not affect baby at all.

At 28 weeks he was 89th percentile,
then 41th percentile at 34 weeks and now at 36 weeks he’s 21th percentile.

The sonographer said he’s healthy, has excellent blood flow, is in the right position and everything looks great. She says looking at the scan in isolation there’s no reason to worry because 21th percentile is still perfectly within range.

The wild thing is, no one even noticed this drop. I noticed at 34 weeks and asked my midwife and then had a review of the scan with an OB, who also nearly missed it again until I asked about it.

The OB said if my 36 week scan came back lower again, they would want to discusss induction with me next week at 37 weeks because it *could* be a sign that my placenta is not working efficiently enough anymore.

So - in isolation all scans looks great and baby boy is healthy, but the trend shows a slowed down growth.

I’m terrified of an induction because I heard so many horror stories and intuitively, it just feels off. It doesn’t feel like baby is ready and it doesn’t feel like I’m ready.
Does anyone have experience with a drop in percentile and suggested induction? It’s hard to tell where the OB is just following protocol and where this actually makes medically sense. It’s clearly not an emergency, otherwise they wouldn’t wait until next week to even review…

It just makes me mad because if I hadn’t pointed it out, nobody had even questioned it. On top of that they scribbled the wrong blood group for me in the report in my blue book
last week which makes me even more distrustful to Homerton Hospital 😳

Plus I’ve been in twice with reduced fetal movements and feel like I’m now on their radar. My midwife keeps telling me to always go in if anything feels off and a couple times in the heatwave it felt just a little different, but everything ended up being totally fine.
She made it sounds like it’s good to just get it checked but didn’t warn me that they’d now keep asking about it and take that into consideration when discussing an induction.

I feel so fck exhausted

I feel so judged by friends is everything why you can hangout your don’t have time anymore …. Mmm hello I have a baby now

I can’t I give more explanation I feel they I just wanna be by myself because now I don’t have any time alone , I wanna relax I wake up everyday a 5 am 🕔 I sleep if a get luck 4 hours … and today my baby decided not sleeping I am exhausted is like the whole routine is gone what I doing wrong ….

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