Hi, it's just after midnight and my wife is really upset. She's in bits. We has a 36 week scan today to check the position of a low lying placenta, we expected it not to have moved and it hadn't. Not a problem, we were prepared for the possibility of a c-section. The sonographer mentioned something about the baby being a little on the short side, but it was a passing comment that we didn't take much notice of at the time, because all of the measurements on the two previous scans had been within the normal percentile and neither the sonographer or the midwife made anything of it in the post scan consultation. Unfortunately it prompted my wife to have a closer look at the scan results in her file before going to bed. She said she'd had a terrible feeling. It showed that the femur length at 36 weeks, today, was 57mm, but on the previous 32 week scan it had been 61mm. That is in itself very strange. But also; the head circumference was now on the upper scale of normal as was the abdominal circumference. We read that these three factors combined could be a sign of dwarfism. None of this makes sense and we can't understand why none of the one-to-one midwife team or the sonographer hadn't flagged anything up at the time of the scan. I think that I should point out that we are practical people and will love our baby no matter what the outcome. I can only assume that the scan that we had today was in someway inaccurate and that's what I've told my wife, How else could the femur length have shortened???? I've promised that we'll go for another scan tomorrow morning, privately if necessary, but I doubt if either of us will sleep well tonight. Has anybody else come across a situation like this? The more I dwell on it, the less sense any of it makes, but it doesn't do anything to reduce my wife's anxiety.