Had 20 week scan yesterday, we're having another girl, but that was slightly overshadowed by one of the measurements. Her nasal bone measurement is short on one side and the scan report calls it hypoplastic, which is one of the markers for Downs. I don't have any other markers but my Downs risk has increased to 1/600. I appreciate this is still low, but the way the consultant explained the diagnostic options (she was basically saying that they wouldn't recommend amnio as I was over the NHS cutoff, but that was a pure economic cut off) made me think I need to get it checked out so I'm going to book the Harmony test today.
I'm calmer about it this morning, it looks like my hospital is one of the only ones that takes this particular measurement at the 20 week scan as part of a research project they are doing, so if I wasn't booked there I wouldn't even know about it! But I still need to know, and feel better having decided to go for the Harmony (plus I'll get a repeat scan as well) as I don't think I can go through the next 4-5 months with this hanging over me.
I know it's low risk, but I need to get it checked out. I had listeria with DD1 and that was a far lower risk (there were 9 cases of pregnancy related listeria in England & Wales the year she was born out of over 700,000 births) and I can't get that out of my head.