Fetal ventriculomegaly

[lindie]

Hi Berry,

DONT WORRY, this is a common thing nowdays!!!

I know you are going to be worried now for the whole rest of your pregnancy, My DS Jett is now 14 months, at our 20 week scan we went in and saw everything and toward the end they told us dont worry all is pretty good, This was my 3rd baby too and had just come to expect a totally worry free pregnancy and healthy baby was naturally going to be the outcome? sound familiar? It was all pretty standard until after a lesiurely lunch with DH we went back over to get the beautiful 3D prints of our DS we had rang family and friends to tell them it was a boy and all was great!!!!

So at the ultrasound place they took us to a room and told us that our DS had fluid on the brain and not to worry but our OBGYN who was at the private hospital accross the road was waiting to see us...worry and panic set in and I cried and cried, we were taken straight in at our OBGYN (no waiting like usual staring at the anne geddes babies on the wall) He did say not to worry, at this point all I could think about was SWELLING and BRAIN not good.

He made appointments at Mater Fetal Medicine, we had more scans to go.....

Well long long long troublesome story short, after many expensive visits to the hospital for scans to tell us our DS left Ventricle was out by 2 sometimes 3 mm we were told at 21 weeks "termination is on the cards here, let us know what you want to do" another cold room and only DH and me, well we had bonded with our DS already and it was not on the cards for us. They told us that we could keep coming in for scans at the cost of $220 each or just wait it out.

We did what was probably the scariest thing of all was to wait it out, They told us about possible shunt operations at birth and the outcomes were good, we were told our DS could have cerebal palsy or hydrocephyl or any of those outcomes etc etc etc... You get the idea.

Well after DH and I had a heart to heart, every fortnight the scans were really too much for me to bare and we decided to go it blind and try to enjoy the rest of the pregnancy, (I didnt really, most stressful 17 weeks of my life) My OBGYN also advised a caesar was best to stop any stress on DS during the birth as I had had one long long birth and a quick one also. So prepping for the c/s was pretty fun LOL.

two weeks before DS birth we went in for a meeting with staff and our OBGYN for possible outcomes etc... If DS had fluid it would be detected ASAP and off to the major hospital he goes if all looks well he would stay with me at our private hospital.

Roll on March 23 (two weeks after DD 7 birthday) we went in and after a traumatic caesar (me- anesthetic troubles) DS was born....

PERFECT ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!!!!! CHECKED DOUBLE CHECKED TRIPLE CHECKED

9 ON ALL APGHARS, ALERT AND SCREAMING-A LITTLE BREATHING DIFFICULTY -CAESAR EARLY BIRTHS USUALLY ARE.
14 months on the most healthy smart baby boy that walked the earth. (yep-we are bias)

My advise to you is dont worry all will be fine, if you need to talk to me contact me and I will tell you anything else you need to hear.

Oh and FWIW so glad we didnt terminate, our life would be empty without him in it!!!

Today he spend a good portion of the day carting around his toy dog saying "dog" and pointing to it!!!!

Lindie