Hi guys, I had my 12 week scan yesterday and it was so lovely too see the baby wiggle and move around and everything was going great, but when the sonograper was measuring she advised behind the baby necks there was lots fluid around 4.6mm which obviously got me worried. After the scan i was put into a room and another nurse came discussed what this could which made me cry as this is my 2nd pregnancy.
I was given the option to have a NIPT or a procedure where they take a sample from the placenta to check for any other abnormalities. I am so so so upset right now, I just hope everything comes back ok and there is no problems.
Also I wanted to mention that this pregnancy was a IVF Frozen Embryo pregnancy which I had a PGT M testing as my first daughter had a genetic condition which is why I wanted this test done so it doesn't effect me having a normal and healthy child in the future. I have emailed my fertility clinic about the what the hospital have said, they have advised that they put an embryo in which had no chromosome problems or any other problems back in in a nutshell a healthy embryo with no genetic or chromose issues which they also would have spotted if embryo had down syndrome and not use that, so I am really confused that the hospital have advised that my blood test was slightly raised for Down Syndrome and was 1:2 chance for Downs Syndrome but the other two issues such as Edwards and the other issue they check was negative in the bloods.
I don't want to have the CVS or Amnio test due to reading a high risk chance off miscarriage however I am happy to have the NIPT test.
Ive booked a private scan for this sunday to see baby again and hope the NT levels have dropped i hope it has.
Have any other ladies had something similar and was the outcome good? Just need some positivity atm.
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hello and sorry for what you are going through. First of all, it’s good that you had a tested embryo which makes it highly unlikely for abnormalities. Secondly, the nuchal scan is usually combined with the presence or non presence of a nasal bone but you didn’t mention this. Did the scan showed a normal nasal bone? This is important.
The sonograper didnt mention anything to us about nasal bone or even acknowledged it which I guess is good if they havent i guess otherwise they would have said. Once she said about the NT being 4.6mm she said her colleague will speak to us.
I just wanted to respond and say I’m sorry you are in this position.
I really don’t think it’s responsible for a sonographer to comment on any findings of a scan. That should be reported by the radiologist who are trained in reading scans.
I had something slightly similar. I had a massive bleed at 18 weeks which turned out to be a hematoma. I had to have a scan a week later and sonographer told me I had a pool of blood behind my placenta which concerned me as it can cause the placenta to detach.
When the report can back from the radiologist they didn’t see any blood there.
Take comfort in the fact your embryo was tested before it was transferred
Surely it would have been picked up then if there were chromosomal issues.
I understand what you’re going through… We recently had to have a NIPT test because my bloods came back high for Downs. Edward’s and Patau were low. We too had IVF and this was a FET.
Having said all of this, our midwife did warn us that due to my age (45) we were high risk. We decided to do the NIPT and received our results very quickly and all is well.
To put our mind at ease we did the NIPT test. And were prepared that if it was high we’d do the amniocentesis test.
The midwife should have explained the chances of miscarriage etc. it’s best not to panic and Google things. I’m as guilty as you on this. We have medical professionals around us to explain things. If what they say doesn’t make sense ask them to explain it a different way.
This is all very personal. One of my closest friends went through this and ended up taking the amniocentesis test to be certain.
I know this feeling all too well! Whilst our nuchal measurement was okay our results came back high risk due to my bloods and age so we had the NIPT, which was all clear thankfully but was a long week or so waiting for results and I was terrified. There are a few other indicators they can check for but you might need to be slightly further along, such as nasal bone, femur length and heart chambers I asked about at the private scan I had in between NIPT and the results for it and she had a look and saw all those as they should be which gave me some reassurance. I am hoping you get the same result and it was just a measurement issue or something with the neck fold fluid, but if not I had a lot of lovely replies to my post (which I wasn’t quite ready to hear about at that time) about people’s amazing children with Down syndrome as unlike the other genetic conditions it is something compatible with a fulfilling happy life. Even if not the one we imagined. Thinking of you 💜 xx
Hello! Just wanted to say if you had a PGT tested embryo transferred you should be ok. My little is one 6 weeks old today and at our 12 week scan had the similar thing happen. Your embryologist can share the report with you - the one where they sent your samples for testing. It will clearly have the embryo - the number of chromosomes and a result next to it. If you see it visually it might provide some comfort. Don’t worry just yet. I understand the test at this stage is to sepetate the low risk from the high risk and ensure the high risk patients get more care ie scans etc. if you are on aspirin they will likely ask you to continue with it.
They will also tell you IVF pregnancies higher chance of preterm/preclampsia etc I had none of these but I was told I would have it due to age! My embryo was made when I was 39 and transferred when I was 43…also wanted to say on my scan- the baby didn’t feel like moving so the sonographer after 90 min gave up and Just used an average measurement which pushed my chances of high probability. Little baby girl was normal weight is growing accordingly. Don’t be scared. Much love
Thank you so much for the posts ladies, that means alot and thank you for sharing your experiences, I have my NIPT test booked on Monday at 1pm, tomorrow I have a private scan to see the little one just to make sure its going okay and hoping the NT levels have dropped.
Thoughts and prayers with you during this distressing time.First, consider just moving to CVS if offered. Risk of issues from procedure is extremely low if generically normal. Reason I mention is that there is this 4 wk or so gap where you can have neither CVS nor amnio. For my 2nd I found it distressing to wait for an amnio when I was too scared to move forward with CVS. I regretted the decision not to just go ahead. For my 3rd I went straight to CVS.
PGT-A is not 100% accurate. There is typically 2% false negative rate. They think most false negatives miscarry. Just mentioning as it is inappropriate for your clinic to claim with certainty that everything will absolutely be "normal". Highly likely, but not 100%.
I went for my private scan today and it was a quick assue scan to see how baby was. The baby is doing all good, heartbeat is fine and everything, we asked the private sonograper if she can easure the NT behind baby neck, she advisded I can't do that and said she can give a overall thought regarding that and she said it does look slightly thick.
I know you mentioned not to worry or things off thag nature but I just can't wrap my head around it. NIPT test is tomorrow at 1pm so that week or so will be so stressful!!
Afternoon all, sorry havent been posting just been super busy! Hope you all had a lovely new year and chrostmas. I just had a call from my hospital and the NIPT result came back as low risk 😊 - just so relieved about that. Hopefully the 20 week scan goes okay. Thank you ladies for the positivity greatly appreciate it.
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