Hi everyone, my sister is now 38 weeks pregnant with her first child and has been longing for a home water birth.
Everything has been fine and things have been progressing nicely, but she had a scan yesterday which showed that the baby is about 4 weeks behind on his expected growth.
A home delvery is now out of the question and also a hostpital water birth has been ruled out (the babies heart rate has been dipping a bit, so they will have to moniter her closely during delivery)
Her BP has been high recently, so this may be the cause, also Inter Uterine Growth Retardation has been mentioned.
Obviously they are very dissapointed about not getting a home delivery, but this has now turned into concern about their baby!
I'm just wondering if anyone else has had experience of this nd can offer any reassurance/
many thanks
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my sisters baby is very small for dates - can anyone reassure us please?
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worriedsister · 04/05/2006 13:41
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