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Nervous about scan tomorrow

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Gingerlady123 · 01/09/2015 19:12

Saturday I went for a private baby bond scan. Baby measured 43mm and I was dated at 11+1. Heart beat 173bpm. Everything looked normal except she said she could see extra fluid behind babies head. She struggled to move baby but when she did she got a measurement of 4.5mm which is not great for such early gestational age.
She was all doom and gloom and acted like my baby defiantly had a chromosome defect or a heart defect. She also said my tube looks blocked and I have two 25mm cysts on my ovary when the nhs scanned me the week before I had one cyst so looks like it's split. I suffer no pain from it though but it is worrying.
I am 21 partner is 23 neither smoke or drink we have no family history of issues except dp brother has downs.
Tomorrow I'm having another private scan except this time I'm having the fluid measurement taken, my blood taken and my age taken into consideration and will get an overall risk factor.
My nhs combined test is not until the 9th and they couldn't fit me in any sooner so I booked this one.
Baby has been very still the last couple scans it barely move out all which concerns me and Dp.
I am concerned about the fluid being even higher tomorrow and I'm terrified I'll get a risk factor of 1:2. I then have the worry of waiting until the anomaly scan if this all goes well to see if anything else is wrong.
How do I get through this . Me and my partner are really stuggling.

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Gingerlady123 · 01/09/2015 19:16

We recommend that you present your screening results to your usual healthcare professional whose contact details we take at the time of booking. Our NT scans are performed by Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) or DQASS accredited Sonographers.

The website says the scans are performed by these people. They also look at the nasal bone.

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KittyandTeal · 01/09/2015 19:23

Sorry you're going through this. I think I've answered your thread on the antenatal test board.

In terms of waiting, if the measurement was accurate and there is extr fluid it won't be a case of 'oh well come back at 20 weeks and we'll have a guess at what's wrong'. You should be offered a cvs or amnio. I imagine cvs in this case as you are early on. They may offer you a type of nipty test but that only a few hospitals who are trialling it, you may want to look at going private.

If it was an early reassurance scan then there is a possibility the measurements are wrong or off. I have been told that if I get pregnant again the fetal medicine centre would want to see me at 11+6 to do a nt scan. That would be done by one of the leading professors in fetal medicine. I only say this because it demonstrates how difficult it can be to get accurate measurements at such an early gestation.

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