Had the 20 week scan last week. 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; 1 in 14000. The internet, for once, has actually been quite reassuring, lots of stories of the same thing and the babies are born perfect.
I'm booked in for a consultant appt at the fetal medicine unit on Tuesday for a detailed scan and some blood tests, I think, so will know more then but I wondered if anyone here had any experiences of this they'd like to share with me? 