Fundal height at 24 weeks

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Mine is 23cm. Does anyone know is this is okay? The midwife said it is but i thought the measurements needs to match up to the weeks you are ?

Seems perfectly normal. Tons of charts and graphs like this online:

Yes totally normal! Can be off by 1-2cm either way. I wouldn't worry about the measurements, I was always measuring 4cm ahead and they said he would be a big baby. My LO came out 40+2 and was 7lbs3

Hi OP! My midwife said that ‘normal’ has a range of plus or minus 2cm from the weeks. So 23cm at 24 weeks falls into that ☺️

Thank you. What percentile would that put me at then ? It's between the 10th and 50th on the chart she's plotted on on my notes. It's all confusing to me I never paid any attention to it with my first pregnancy

This is the chart

Why bother working it out? It’s normal. Your midwife isn’t thinking in terms of percentiles. External measurements are all pretty ballpark for size anyway.

I'm 35 weeks and no one has ever measured my fundal height! I'm not in the UK, but you can therefore see that it's not hugely important when it comes to growth checks! 😂

I'm due to have growth scans anyway because of a blood clotting disorder and she did say that the scans are more accurate than the fundal height measurements. At my 20 week scan baby's weight was estimated at 436g which seemed a nice weight.

I have anxiety and the last few weeks been getting abit worried with how the baby is growing for some reason... nothing to base my worries on just completely irrational!

Looks totally normal to me.
my fundal height was way below the bottom line at 24 weeks but a scan found a larger than average baby! Scans are much more accurate.

24 weeks seems early for them to be measuring fundal height, so many people don't start showing properly until later! I've only heard of it being from 28 weeks onwards. It is a really imperfect form of measurement though so don't fixate on it. It will vary throughout the day based on how much you've eaten, drunk etc and two midwives could measure differently depending on what they identify as being the top and bottom of the bump. If your midwife says it is fine that is all that matters. Every bump grows differently so it won't help your anxiety to compare to others. Could it be worth talking to your midwife about your anxiety to see if you can be referred to the perinatal mental health team?All the best with your pregnancy OP!

@GrowBabyGrow she only did it to reassure me I think!

She did also mention that midwife's soon will be told to start measuring bumps earlier aswell which is interesting !

I am all booked in for an assessment with perinatal mental health just seems ages away though atm

My fundal height never got past 29cm. Every time I had to go for scan and very time he was fine. Born a very average 7lb 4