Hi everyone. Haven't posted for a while because I was a bit thrown by the scan result on Friday - basically everything was ok, except that there was no nasal bone, which bumped the risk of down's to 1 in 1000, which I know isn't bad at all, but the sonographer put the wind up us. My midwife had said they wouldn't offer anything invasive unless the risk was higher than 1 in 250 but he went straight from saying the bone was absent to offering cvs. It seemed like it was a terrible thing so we ended up waiting to have a more detailed scan before cvs, except that after talking to the nice consultant we backed out of the cvs.
The consultant said that 1-3% of normal babies have an absent nasal bone, and the risk of down's in my case is only 0.1%. Wish we'd spoken to him three hours earlier. I've also researched it a bit and on the Fetal Medicine website it says:
"The difficulty is when the gestation is 11 weeks or the beginning of the 12th week and the nasal bone is absent but the NT, the other ultrasound markers and the serum biochemistry are normal. In this cases our advice is that the patients are rescanned in one week and action is only taken at that point if there is persistence of the absence of the nasal bone."
I was exactly 12 weeks and everything else was normal. I'm now a bit that they offered an invasive instead of suggesting a repeat scan, but I guess since Harris Birthright is the nhs they have a cut off - limited resources and all that - even though the FMC is run by the same man.
Anyway, we've been talking about going along to the FMC for another scan at the end of the week, but I'm also going to call my midwife on Monday and see what she thinks.
Sorry for such a long post but I'd like to know what you think of my plan of action.
Hope everyone is well today - I'm actually feeling fairly cheery today, although a bit saddened that my appetite has dwindled. I was enjoying stuffing my face but don't fancy anything lately.