20 weeks scan, small baby concern

Hey girls, had my 20 week scan on Wednesday, what a little bugger our boy was being, hiding his face, crossing his legs and had only his bum on show for most of the scan. Sent for 3 walks, truffle shuffled my dignity away and all seemed very lighthearted, but they did say when they finally measured him that hes only at 8.3 percentile instead of around 10 where they'd be happy and all would be considered okay. Was also told that my placenta is sitting very low so this will need extra monitoring. They said ill require a scan in another 2 weeks and then another 4 and then at 32 and 34 weeks too. I got so upset, our first baby and very long awaited so my anxiety has already been hard to battle. Anyone had similar and still had perfectly little healthy bubba? He was definitely being a cheeky chap but I feel like ive not grown him properly 😔

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Hi, we have our scan soon so can't give first hand advice, but a few of my friends have been told their babies were measuring small, had a small head or short legs etc and they were born absolutely fine with no size concerns. Try not to worry too much at the moment, it is still early and things can change.

I don't think the measurements are all that accurate from scans. My sister was told her baby was 90th percentile and was gonna be a big baby, and had to have extra growth scans, and her baby was born around the 50th percentile.
It's more important that the measurements stay around the same, I think, i.e. not get smaller or rapidly bigger

Please don't read into the measurements as I was told this with my wee boy and I worked myself up had so many scans and never with the same person. They worry the absolute out of you the only good thing about it is you get all the extra scans to see baba. My boy was born 7oz and healthy not a bother on him 😁

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