Nuchal Translucency Scan

[ecossegirl91]

Hi everyone

Just had my first scan and measuring at 12w5d 😀baby was such a little wriggler!
It was quite hard for the sonographer to take the NT measurement as baby kept stretching but she got 3 at 1.6, 1.9 and 1.9 which gave an average of 1.8/1.9mm. Baby measured at 63mm. Bloods were also taken and waiting on results.

I know the NT result needs the bloodwork to confirm everything but do you think this measurement was OK? They didnt seem concerned, said baby looked 'lovely' but wouldn't obviously say one way or the other!

Anyone else been a similar stage in pregnancy and had this measurement?

Thanks!

Oh, I am also 31 😊

Congratulations! I think mine was 1.8mm at 12+5 - totally normal, anything below 3.5mm is low risk. My combined screening came back as 1 in 31,000 for Downs and 1 in 100,000 for Edwards and Pataus - I’m 29 ☺️ So hopefully nothing to worry about for you!

Hi, I’m new to this forum. I am a first time expecting dad and I want some advice and reassurance basically so I hope on on the right thread. I’m more looking for ways I can also try and help my partner.

My partner and I recently had our 12 week scan, it took the sonographer a while to get a decent scan of our baby (my partner has strong ab muscles due to rising horses and the baby was in an awkward position). We finally saw our baby on the screen and to the untrained eye everything looked normal (baby is a normal CRL size etc)

After being told to go for a walk and have something extra sugary to get the baby going we came back to the room and they started over again and they found our baby had a high NT translucency of 6.2mm. We was pretty much ushered into a quiet room and they told us what this meant. My partner has had her bloods taken and the results have come back and they weren’t great. My partner has low PAPP and hcg.

The report found that our baby has a 1:8 risk of DS and a 1:26 risk of Patau and Edwards syndrome respectively.

This has broken my partner, she took a while to even come round to the idea of her being pregnant but recently she’s got extremely excited. Since Tuesday she’s not the same woman understandably and I have this tremendous guilt looming over me that I’m not doing enough when I’m trying to wrap my head around the whole situation.

I can be quite an optimistic person, especially after seeing some of the threads online about how babies can be born healthy with no chromosomal defects, but my partner on the other hand. She’s become very closed and I’m trying to find the right thing to say/do.

We have a CVS booked for Tuesday in Southampton. Since we’ve found out this news, all the excitement of expecting has gone so early.

Thanks in advance, but I needed to get this off my chest and almost feel like I’m speaking to someone about it.

I forgot to mention my partner is 31 and I am 33.

@dean1989 what a lovely ultrasound of your baby.

such a difficult time but try thinking of it as a 7:8 chance your baby DOESN’T have DS. Unfortunately, there isn’t much else to do but hang on til Tuesday but I would say if your partner is being quiet, maybe just let her be.

I tend to be quite insular if I’m very upset, and all I really want is a cuddle and to not talk. Maybe your partner is the same? Just let her know she is supported in whatever outcome and choices she may need to make. Make sure YOU have someone to talk to if you need to though (mum/brother/best mate?)

there is another mum I’ve seen posting on these type of threads recently who had a child who unexpectedly arrived with DS (wasn’t picked up on the screening) who has some lovely stories to tell! It doesn’t need to be all doom & gloom (although admittedly Edwards/Patau is rather different)