Had the 20 week scan today. Everything looked good, baby is moving about loads and his growth is between the 50th and 75th centiles. However, his bowel appears to have an echogenic patch.
The sonographer has reassured me that this doesn't mean there is something wrong with the baby and in fact most of the echogenic bowels they find turn out to be nothing more serious than the baby having swallowed some blood earlier in the PG or that I have had an infection, like toxoplasmosis or parvovirus, and it's possibly, but not definitely, passed through the placenta to the baby.
Having come home and googled it appears to be a soft marker for cystic fibrosis and downs syndrome among other things. My nuchal and blood results at 13 weeks were very low for down's though; 1in 14000.
We're waiting for a call from the fetal medicine unit so we can go for further tests. I'm not panicking and thinking it's all gone wrong, the internet, for once, has actually been quite reassuring and because everything else looks good and healthy I'm trying to stay positive.
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Get updates on how your baby develops, your body changes, and what you can expect during each week of your pregnancy by signing up to the Mumsnet Pregnancy Newsletters.
Pregnancy
Echogenic bowel. Please come and share your experiences.....
11 replies
RightUpMyRue · 14/11/2012 18:05
OP posts:
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.