We went in for our NT scan, and just as I feared, it was too early to do the CVS at 10 weeks 3 days. The tech measured the NT at 1.3mm. I had decided not to even look at the screen — we were far, far to educated in these things at our second son’s scan and knew before it was measured that it wasn’t good at all.
But I glanced up and said, “That looks so...NORMAL!” and it was.
Our high-risk OB looked at everything she could see — a three vessel umbilical cord (the boys had two vessel cords, another soft marker for possible chromosomal problems) and we could tell, especially with our second son, that his heart was out of place and something was wrong with his brain. Turns out he had a severe diaphragmatic hernia and his stomach, which was in his chest cavity, was pushing his heart forward.
But there was none of that stone silence at this scan. We left with ultrasound photos in our hand and a sense of optimism we had never felt with our previous pregnancies.
But there was that looming fear, too, because we had gone in too early. Could the number change? Could something serious have been missed?
Because we have to do the CVS (genetic testing done with a tissue sample taken through the cervix) anyway to either confirm or rule out glycosylation, we had to schedule for the next week. The CVS can’t be done before 11 weeks. So we wait again, this time with guarded hope.
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