Help Please for our precious very big little bean

[melbournemum]

hi everyone

I thought I'd do another gerneral post as my SIL is really worried. (please see the Pray this little one hangs on thread for background....)

A slight wobble tonight but hopefully some of you might be able to reassure us.

VBLB's scan results today have left dSIL a little concerned. at 28 weeks he/she was measuring 1.3 kilos and was described by the doctor as 'chubby' and at the top of the weight percentile, today at 32 weeks he/she weighs 1.9 kilos and is now in the bottom 20% for weight. The doctor has said he will scan in two weeks and if the weight gain has not picked up he will deliver VBLB then at 34 weeks. If movements slow down SIL is to go straight to emergency.
SIL is understandably upset and worried as it sounds so serious but the doctor said he wasn't worried. She is trying to stay calm and I'd love to be able to reassure her. Has anyone heard of or experienced this?

Just a bump in road I"m sure. Please keep sending love and prayers and thoughts of strength and chubbiness!, just a few more weeks to go...

I know your SIL is in the hands of specialists who are doing their best, but sonography is a notoriously inaccurate way of measuring weight. I'm just a mother of course, not a health professional, but in three pregnancies and two living children I had had my share of worries in the scan room, most totally without foundation.
When the scans are happening, what feedback is your poor SIL being given on head dimension and limb length? Even these are not totally accurate, but IME the scan is measuring a quantifiable, not making estimates of weight based on a visual image (sorry, I have not seen your other thread lately).
Are the bone measurements also giving cause for concern?
Is the doctor fully aware of your SIL's medical history and has she been able to talk honestly to him about how she feels during this pregnancy, instead of them just focussing how she and the baby are doing physically?

Hi melbournemum, sorry to hear about your SIL. If she's been discharged it sounds as though they're not massively worried at the moment and just being cautious. Also don't forget that scan measurements are not always accurate, they can be out by 25% either way, so a mistake either at the previous scan or at this one could easily explain why the baby appears not to have grown much. HTH