I’ve been meaning to write this post for the past few years and have finally found got round to sharing our experience. I hope it helps someone going through a similar thing.
At our 12 week scan with our first baby we were told that the nuchal translucency was measuring much higher than normal at 4.8mm. We were quickly referred to a consultant in foetal medicine the following week and given a pretty dire picture that our baby likely had a severe chromosomal or genetic disorder. We were completely devastated and what followed was a horrendous few weeks of stress and worry while we waited for an amniocentesis at 16 weeks. I was signed off work at this point due to extreme stress.
3 days later we received the FISH results over the phone which were all normal. The nurse said this was great news and the likelihood would be that the full amniocentesis results would be normal too Fast forward 2 weeks and the amniocentesis results were normal too!! We had a cardiac scan at 20 weeks, again all normal and the 20 week scan was all good too. We were beyond relieved, if not a bit traumatised from all the stress.
And that little baby is now our bright and beautiful nearly 6 year old boy who was born fit and healthy with no issues whatsoever. We know that we’re extremely blessed to have such a positive outcome and just wanted to give hope to other parents going through this.