dilated bowel on 20 week scan

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Hi - I`m hoping someone else will have been through this and can convince me not to worry so much :-)
We went for our 20 week scan and the ultrasonographer thought there may be a renal cyst but probably was just some dilated bowel - didnt sound too worried about the bowel being dilated but booked us in to recheck
2 weeks later we went back and no evidence of a renal problem but obviously dilated bowel - 5mm by 1.5cm section
The ultrasonographer spoke directly to a specialist in fetal medicine and took the measurements and booked us in to see him for a more detailed scan in 3 weeks time.
Now I dont know how worried I should be - from looking at google (as recommended by the ultrasonographer) the baby might have an intestinal blockage which might need surgery as soon as he is born - or he might be normal :-) I am stressing out a lot as I read the worst case senarios - ruptured guts, multiple blockages, months in intensive care (and death) and obviously assume that will be us. My husband says we shouldnt worry till we know what we are worrying about - very true but quiet difficult to do.
Just wondered if anyone had any good or bad experiences of this type of problem
thanks
p

I went thru something similar with DC1 (pyostasis? renal dilation, anyway).
And he was fine after birth, btw, never had an issue outside the womb. So I feel for you, I vividly remember feeling freaked out by the uncertainty of it all.

My tuppence is that most of such things is them trying very hard but failing to find a real problem. I can't promise yours is a false scare, but I feel that I know that typically it's 85+% false scares on this type of thing, where you'll get all clear right after birth. And maybe 10% are cases where monitoring will continue after birth but eventually be declared not a real problem, either. Of the remaining 5%, at least we can be grateful for the quality of modern medical care that can almost always completely fix any real problems fairly easily.

It's annoying, I know. Good luck :).