Once speaking with the Dr's office they said that we very well could find out the sex of the baby shortly before our party if we came in for another visit I decided I would go to this appointment alone......Ryan was busy at work and I wanted him with me when we would know what we were having vs. coming with me for the 12 week checkup and sonogram. We have had the 12 week sonogram with Mayson I knew we would likely not know the sex of the baby. I mean it is pretty much unheard of to know that soon and it really be the correct sex at just 12 weeks.
I really wasn't nervous at all......until the day of. I kind of got a bit of a funny feeling and I pushed it aside as I quickly grabbed the tape recorder, I knew I wanted to film especially since Ryan wasn't with me. I didn't want to see our baby and not have him share in the moment even though it would be that evening.
I also knew that my friend was working that day and that she would likely be able to pop into the sonogram, and if she couldn't I would see her after anyway.
I got there, signed in, and excitedly waited my turn :)
The same ultrasound technician who did our last visit and all of Mayson's sonograms was doing the sonogram today.
As she did her measurements and photos of the baby I recorded. I noticed that she was spending a lot of time behind the babies neck. I also know that this is the sonogram where they screen for down syndrome.
I really wasn't concerned and just believed her when she said to move around, change my laying position.....just so she could get a better look.
It only took me a few minutes to realize that it was time to turn the camera off.........and I literally felt like the room was echoing my heart beat and that time was going by so slowly.
This sonogram was taking a long time. I finally asked her....
"Is something wrong?"
She didn't exactly go into detail but she also didn't leave me hanging in the dark. For that I am appreciative. She explained that about a year ago the concern would arise if a babies nuchal measurement was a 3.5 and that recently is changed to a 3.0 and that she was measuring me at a 2.9
Apparently now being close to the 3.0 is a red flag.
I surprisingly remained calm. She wanted to take several more pictures and wanted to speak with the Doctor on what the next step was.
I got dressed and waited, seriously what felt like FOREVER to speak to someone.
Thankfully I kept it in the road. At this point I think I did because I knew that a lot of information was probably going to be talked about and I wanted to soak it all in and be able to tell Ryan.
Once the Doctor came in we spoke about what this could mean........the positives and the negatives.
-Commonly a high nuchal is a red flag for down syndrome.
-We would not be running blood work because that could show a false positive, and no need to add more stress
-The positive thing to focus on is that Ryan and I have already conceived a healthy baby and that a syndrome is caused by chromosome issues.
-We are young
-We would be seeing a specialist to speak further about this and our options and they would call tomorrow.
Can’t they call us today????????!!!!!!
I didn't cry, I did really well. Even my friend who knows me very well was surprised at how well I was keeping it in the road.
I got in the car and I called Ryan. I explained to him what was going on and that we would wait to hear what the next step would be.
Our images were being sent to the high risk and their team of doctors would review the images of our baby.
But as of now.....we wait.
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