Hello ladies, and thank you all for your wishes. Kittens, I can?t believe you didn?t get a phonecall! I?m thinking of you. I hope work keeps you distracted for the next couple of days.
Eavers, welcome and congratulations, I hope it will all go well for you. Day by day, as Cantdo said.
Sorry in advance for a long post. My scan went well, I think. It was an excruciating half an hour though, I thought I?d faint on the table. We went in and I was holding my notes, but the doctor didn?t look at them properly, so we told him about our previous problem and he started by looking at the brain. And then silence, he measured again and again without saying anything, but with a concerned look on his face. And after about 5 minutes, he just goes on to show us the stomach on the screen! At that point, my poor dh, who had turned white, asked him if everything is ok with the brain, and he mumbled something like ?borderline measurement?!!!
To cut it a bit short, we threw question after question at him, my dh mostly as I felt I couldn?t open my mouth. He measured one brain ventricle at 8.8mm and in the end it turns out borderline measurement would have been 10mm, which is what we knew from when Silvia?s problems were picked up. And we could say he wasn?t very happy with this measurement, but after going into a bit more detail and after we told him that it was 8mm at our 21 week scan and the professor we saw was very happy with this, he had a complete change of attitude, saying it didn?t grow much, which is a good sign, and that because we are having a boy, the ventricles are bigger anyway! Thank you very much for giving me a heart attack then!
We are very disappointed with his attitude, there was no empathy at all, and we had to fight for every bit of information. The measurements are all ok, the baby very active, but because of his initial doubt I now don?t feel very reassured. I also feel a bit 
about him not looking at the previous measurements properly and having a complete change of heart 15 minutes into the scan. He even went on to say that he only recommends a 32 week scan because of our previous history, but that the prognosis is excellent! And that even if at 32 weeks the measurement is 10mm or slightly above, he would not be concerned. Right, after telling me 10 mins earlier that 8.8 is borderline!
Needless to say we?ll go to see the professor again at 32 weeks. The more I think about today, the more worried I get, so I just hope I?ll get some proper sleep tonight and wake up a bit calmer tomorrow. I almost wish I didn?t go to this stupid scan! Why don?t they teach bedside manner at medical school?!