Experience with reading ultrasounds?

[ETsJourney]

Hello all,

I was wondering if you could help me interpret the ultrasound as the nurse today was in hurry.

At 7+3 was the baby at 92 percentile in length. Now at 8+4 is it at 90 percentile. It grew but it seems that the rate of growth slowed down. I am worried because between week 8 and 9 last year we had a MMC.
Does anything look off on the ultrasound (last week compared to today)?

Totally normal. Congrats to you on your wee baby x

Thank you!

Centiles always have margins of error. Early scans are very accurate, later scans slightly less so. When you are more pregnant, bear in mind that grow scans >28/40 are designed to monitor small babies and are not supposed to be used to diagnose ‘big’ babies.

Surely ask the nurse if you're worried. And the measurements are so tiny at that stage, and babies grow at different rates.

You don’t need to worry about percentiles or anything until the baby is much bigger - that’s why they don’t plot them on a growth chart until then. It’s less than millimetres they are measuring and can be quite inaccurate so dont worry about it yet - you’re still very early in pregnancy and baby is teeny tiny 🥰

They don't even measure the baby in percentiles usually at that early on. As long as it's about where it's meant to be for gestational age and a heart beat then it's good