Nasal bone

[Pheepa]

I know none of you are medical experts (well some of you might be!) but just to settle my mind after a tough couple of days - is this a visible nasal bone?

You had your 12/13 week scan on Thursday, right? Didn't they mention it then?

They didn’t and I stupidly didn’t ask! Would she have mentioned it if it was missing?

It's one of the markers they have to check for for DS so I'm sure she would have done it!

On the report they gave me, the exact length of the nasal bone was among all the other measurements (femur length, abdomen circumference, head circumference etc).

Here's my pic, I'm assuming one of those lines is the right one 😂

Thanks. I did ask if she was checking anything other than Nuchal fold measurement and she said not which then put me off asking about the nasal bone. The report in my file only had crown to rump length, gestation and NT measurement. Assume there was a fuller report kept in their records.
kicking myself for not asking more

My pic looks similar to yours in real life with a gap between the 2 white bits which I think is skin and then bone. The gap isn’t as visible on the screen pic

Probably just one of those things that they don't mention when everything is fine!

I don’t think anyone on here will be able to tell you if there is a nasal bone unless they are trained in this. Your nt measurement and bloods and other information will all be put together and given a risk score….if your score is high risk they would look into this in more detail and you’d get a scan with Fetal medicine and offered further tests. If it comes back low risk the chances of the baby having Down’s syndrome is not likely and they wouldn’t recommend further testing…at 20 weeks scan they then look for any other abnormalities, if all fine there the chances are you have a healthy baby x