Hi folks!
34 weeks here!
We have been having regular scans due to previous history of IUGR (although this bubba seems to be doing okay and consistently measuring around the 16th centile, so smaller but perfectly fine. Last baby was off the bottom of the chart!
Yesterday I was a bit worried about bubbas movements, she had been quiet for a few days but was SUPER quiet yesterday (although still getting hiccups regularly, so I knew it was nothing too sinister). Anyway, they ended up doing some blood flow measurements and the MCA one came in under the 5th centile. They kind of dismissed it very quickly and just said we'll we'll see you next week for your next scan anyway, so we'll remeasure then, but they gave me no info on what any of this actually means. So I did the WORST thing and googled it when I got home and am now absolutely freaking out, there was hardly any info out there other than ones talking about brain damage and cognitive defecit and even neonatal death.
Can anyone shed a bit of light on this? From what I can understand it's the ratio of blood between the umbilical cord and the brain, but I just don't really understand it :(
They told me to not wait if I have any concerns atall and come back straight away if I'm worried, but now I AM worried because of this, so what do you do lol?
This pregnancy has just been one issue after another and now I've got this to worry about too :(