Has anyone else under consultant care had them contradict what the scans show?
For the last 8 weeks my scans have shown a baby in the 95th centile, although today she was down to the 90th centile (I'm 32+2 and having regular scans because of worry about her size). I was previously told they would likely induce me at 38 weeks due to her size but today the consultant told me he would probably recommend a CS to avoid going through a long labour and probably ending up with an ECS anyway.
However, when he actually felt my tummy he totally changed his mind and said he disagreed totally with the scans and that although my baby is above average in size she isn't anywhere near as big as the scans suggest and he has absolutely no worries whatsoever about her.
So now I'm really confused, not surprisingly! I did ask questions at the time such as how can his hands be more reliable than the scans but he said if 5 sonographers did a scan on the same baby they would come away with 5 different results and scans also don't take into account the size of the mother. I'm 5'10'' and he said whilst the baby is probably in the 80th-85th centile he's not worried about it in my case because of my size, whereas in a smaller woman it would be more a cause for concern.
What is the point of having sizing scans every four weeks if the consultant is going to poo-poo the results of them anyway?
Anyone else had a similar experience?
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Consultant contradicting scans...so confused!
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redhead78 · 17/03/2014 17:35
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