Wife had first scan but did not go well 
Yesterday I went to the hospital with my wife to have the first scan of our baby of 13 weeks and 5 days. It was going well until the sonographer said there was some bad news. She measured the nuchal translucency of our baby and said it was 8.9mm, normally this would be around 3mm. She said this is suggestive of Cystic Hygroma.
She said she needed to consult with the FMU who recommended we follow this up with the FMU consultant. However there was no one available yesterday afternoon, instead she booked us in for today at the same time. She said my wife would be going through a more invasive test.
Last night she was in tears and had so much going through her mind. We looked on the Internet about cystic hygroma and other complications which seem to be associated at an early stage of pregnancy.
Today we went in to see the consultant and having waited a litlle while we went in to see the FMU consultant. He went through a quick background information of chromosomes and explained about the invasive testing (for fetal karotype?) which was to have a needle inserted near the baby to extract some tissue to use in the testing. He gave us a waiver to read and for my wife to sign off which states the process. My wife and I read through this and we saw there was a 1% higher chance of miscarriage from this process, but wanted to get this check done to see the outcome.
She did feel a little uncomfortable after the procedure and had to lie down for about 15-30 minutes afterwards. She had to take time off work tomorrow as well, as the consultant recommended her not to do anything excessive over the next 24-48 hours which will be crucial. She has been resting since this afternoon.
Now it is just the wait for the results which at the moment things are going is not good.
Has anyone been through the invasive testing or have experience of cystic hygroma? We are so sad at the moment with the uncertainty.
It would be our first baby but to receive such news is pretty devastating.
Yesterday I went to the hospital with my wife to have the first scan of our baby of 13 weeks and 5 days. It was going well until the sonographer said there was some bad news. She measured the nuchal translucency of our baby and said it was 8.9mm, normally this would be around 3mm. She said this is suggestive of Cystic Hygroma.
She said she needed to consult with the FMU who recommended we follow this up with the FMU consultant. However there was no one available yesterday afternoon, instead she booked us in for today at the same time. She said my wife would be going through a more invasive test.
Last night she was in tears and had so much going through her mind. We looked on the Internet about cystic hygroma and other complications which seem to be associated at an early stage of pregnancy.
Today we went in to see the consultant and having waited a litlle while we went in to see the FMU consultant. He went through a quick background information of chromosomes and explained about the invasive testing (for fetal karotype?) which was to have a needle inserted near the baby to extract some tissue to use in the testing. He gave us a waiver to read and for my wife to sign off which states the process. My wife and I read through this and we saw there was a 1% higher chance of miscarriage from this process, but wanted to get this check done to see the outcome.
She did feel a little uncomfortable after the procedure and had to lie down for about 15-30 minutes afterwards. She had to take time off work tomorrow as well, as the consultant recommended her not to do anything excessive over the next 24-48 hours which will be crucial. She has been resting since this afternoon.
Now it is just the wait for the results which at the moment things are going is not good.
Has anyone been through the invasive testing or have experience of cystic hygroma? We are so sad at the moment with the uncertainty.
It would be our first baby but to receive such news is pretty devastating.
