Dawes Redman Criteria not met

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Hi all,

I'm currently 27 weeks pregnant.

Yesterday I convinced myself I couldn't feel the baby move at all, and so I contacted triage and got called into the hospital to be checked out. They listened to the heartbeat using a doppler and all was well.

Then the midwife said because I am over 26 weeks, they have to put me onto the CTG machine which was fine by me as it meant extra reassurance. She did say as I'm still quite early that the baby is likely not to meet all the criteria, suffice to say they didn't as there was no episodes of high variation recorded although there was spikes of it going high so the midwife said she wasn't concerned.

The baby's heart rate ranged from 140 - 160 bpm, but mainly sat between 150 and 156 bpm.

She went off to get me signed off by a doctor, but during this time came back in to check my belly growth.

Anyway she came back into the room to say that the doctor is not worried, that the CTG was a beautiful example of heart rate and that my fundal height was 27cm which is spot on too. However due to my underactive thyroid they will arrange a growth scan as I should have one being under the consultant and will receive that by 29 weeks.

So I went home feeling really reassured...
But today I am so nervous and just unsure? The hospital have called me with a date for growth scan tomorrow morning. Which I should be delighted they got me in so quickly but instead I'm a bit paranoid that it's because they lied and there's something to be worried about.

Just looking for some reassurance or something. Anyone else had anything similar before?

I had this exact same thing!

felt reassured after being checked but then was left wondering why I was having a scan if everything was fine… I rang my community midwife in the end to discuss and she was able to look through my hospital notes and reassure me (again) and said a growth scan is just standard procedure in our borough.

don’t be put off my women in other boroughs saying scans are so expensive they’d only be doing one if they were worried - it’s a postcode lottery!!

give your community midwife a call for a chat and you get to see your baby’s lovely face tomorrow!!

my baby was fine :)

@MamaBear267 Honestly means a lot that you took the time out to reassure me, so glad I'm not alone with my experience and worry!!

I'm very excited to see her again, but I think there's elements of scanxiety too combined with yesterdays worry. Will contact my community midwife that's a fab idea :) I didn't know that we were allowed to! xx

Scan after reduced movements episode is standard in our area. I had same with DD1.