Anomaly scan in ten minutes at Royal London?!?

[aiti72]

Hi, sorry to bother you again, I have another thread open here as this pregnancy continues to confuse and worry me big time. Had anomaly scan today in Royal London, high risk pregnancy and still it took only ten minutes for the consultant to say all looks fine. Should I go privately for a more detailed scan, or are all anomaly scans this short?

The baby must been in a good position and the dr got all of the details he needed. I'm sure he took all of the time he needed to. Great news that all looks fine!

How many measurements did they take? Did they give a copy for your file?
I went for a 20wk anomaly scan privately:
www.fetalmedicine.com/f-fmc-scans.htm Currently I am a low risk pg.
They measured:

Fetal Measurements taken:
Biparietal Diameter (BPD)
Occipitofrontal DIiameter (OFD)
Head Circumference (HC)
Posterior Ventricle (VP)
Transcerebellar Diameter (TDC)
Cisterna Magna (CM)
Nuchal Fold Thickness
Nasal Bone
Abdominal Diameter Transverse (TAD)
Abdominal Diameter AP (APAD)
Abdominal Circumference (AC)
L. Pelvis
R. Pelvis
Femur Length (FL)
Est. fetal weight
Heart action: present
Fetal movements: visible
Presentation cephalic
Amniotic Fluid: level
Cord vessels
Placenta position

They plotted the fetal measurements:

Phrase at end of scan letter:
The following were visualised and appear normal.
head, brain, face, spine, neck and skin, chest, four chamber heart view and great vessels, abdominal wall, gastro-intestinal tract, kidneys and bladder, extremities, skeleton.

I hope this helps for comparison purposes.

The Royal London is my local hospital. I recently swapped to St Thomas and as we were in between hospitals we went for a private scan. It cost 250 and I found them very professional and re-assuring.

Forgot to say we were in there 25 minutes while she regularly measured with little chat.

Thank you so much, cityangel, that really helps!

Cityangel, do you remember what was your baby's nuchal fold thickness at this scan? I have no idea what it should be in normal pregnancies or if ours 3.9mm is ok? I'm about to go to Fetal Medicine Centre as well, last time they were just great.

Aiti- the slow bit to most scans is recording images.Actually doing the looking can be very quick (if baby is cooperating!!) but it can take ages to record images. Not every trust records normal findings, so 10 minutes sounds fine. Normal range for nuchal fold varies with gestation, but I'd call 3.9 anywhere 18-24 weeks completely normal (i don't do anat scans outside of this range).
If you're going to FMC anyway, they'll go into it all in loads more detail specific to you and your circumstances.
Good luck!

Thank you, mumofk. So reassuring the nuchal fold sounds normal.

Hi its Nuchal Fold Thickness 4.8mm and that didn't flag any issues. I hope your next scan goes ok. Ours went fine although baby hid for the 3D photos

Mine was 3.5 at exactly 20 weeks which is the 50th centile for that BPD.

I had my anomaly scan at the FMC rather than my local because I'd been on steroids in pregnancy which is associated with cleft palate - my local hospital didn't check the baby's face, lips & palate whereas the FMC do specifically (I wanted to know if possible to start finding good surgeons).

Incidentally I used to work at the Royal London - they aren't terrible just very, very busy

meant to say they also checked the length of my cervix & did a doppler scan of the placenta.

I love the wealth of experience here, thank you ladies! I went back to see the consultant at Royal London today, when forced to answer the question about the residual risk he reassured me that after all the testing and scanning all is quite likely to be ok. I've been so "sure" something horrific will happen that it's hard to think about this as a normal pregnancy anymore. Will try to start enjoying the growing bump.

Its hard to relax aiti I worry too.. for me its the I feel to lucky for this to work out feeling but I am learning to relax more each day.
Have you found any antenatal stuff in the area. I have found East London a tough nut to crack in terms of chances to meet other RL mums to be.