Fundal Hight Chart

[LovelyNanny26]

Hi in 36 years old and I'm 26+4 weeks pregnant.I went to see the midwife today and she said the baby is measuring at 24 which is the lower end normal 10th centile.She hasn't referred me for a scan.Should I be worried other than that everything is normal.Thanks.

Fundal charts are extremely inaccurate. It can vary massively on babies position etc and are usually not done until 28 weeks. They then usually continue to measure it on a fortnightly basis.

i honestly wouldn't be concerned with fundal measurements. They may refer you for a growth scan in a few weeks if baby is "measuring behind" but with no other concerns I wouldn't worry.

They measured me to be in the 97th percentile and when I was scanned baby was measuring below 50th!

No

I got sent for a growth scan after midwife measured me as not growing for two appointments… worried myself over nothing, baby was spot on and the sonographer said it’s really really inaccurate and varies so much. She said I’m tall so lots of room for baby to stretch out, depends how baby is lying…

Thanks guys.The baby was sideways in my womb but the midwife was measuring from top to bottom.Also she wasn't concerned bout the measurements because I was on the lower scale of normal.Im seeing her again at 28 weeks.If it's on inaccurate why we are still using it?I'm sure we can do with something more modern.

To be honest I have no idea - I assume its so we are not having to be scanned every 2 weeks from 28 weeks on... but even my midwife told me they are not a great measurement of anything...

My kid was measuring WAY below 10th centile at this same point in terms of fundal height and the midwives seemed very worried, but she was eventually born 40th centile!

I don't think they use that method in my country but then we get 4 scans through out the whole pregnancy.

I was too small at my first one at 28 weeks and my baby ended up 8lb 5 at 39 weeks.. they seem to be quite inaccurate at that stage

I suppose they have to offer some form of monitoring growth rather than nothing to cover themselves, in the hope they do manage to catch the few babies that do have growth issues/fluid etc. I’m now pregnant with #3 and won’t be paying much attention to the fundal height measurements if everything else seems ok. I was toying with the idea of not consenting to the measuring at all because it seems like such an unnecessary worry (especially when they have a student midwife there who gets a different measurement to your actual midwife, bless em).