Bridee, how is Holly going now? Hope she is feeding well and you are both happy.
I'm having another scan tomorrow so I'm really hoping that the baby has made some good growth. The doctor has bought the scan a week early, only because he is going away for a week in the school holidays. I'll be glad to see her again anyway! I will post an update tomorrow. I looked into the problem of growth restriction that is 'head sparing'. It sounded very familiar to me, but the doctor hasn't mentioned it so I guess i will have to trust him! I'll be 34 weeks on Wednesday so it's certainly getting closer!
Friends of mine had their pregnancy monitored by a lot of scans due to slow growth & they were getting told the head was too big as well. When bub arrived he was small but perfectly normal & all was in proportion.
Stellasmum - Holly is doing exceptional well - she is certainly trying to catch up growth wise. She is putting on about 300gms per week (which is alot, they expect between 20-40gm a day). She is actually at this point the perfect baby just eats and sleeps. I have to wake her for feeds during the day and at night she is going from 4-6 hrs between feeds so I'm really only waking once in the night to feed her.
Good luck with your scan tomorrow I will be looking out to hear how it goes.
I had the scan this afternoon (34 weeks) and am very happy with the results! The head is still measuring larger than the rest of the body, but the abdomen and legs have grown really well. The doctor is happy with her progress and estimates her weight to be 2.25 kg which is average so that sounds good to me!
The blood flow in the cord is good too so hopefully everything goes smoothly from here on.
So glad to hear Holly is doing so well. She sounds like she is putting on good weight which is great. How are you feeling after the caesar?
Great to hear your scan went well. The weight estimate is great sounds like the papp-a isn't going to play a part in this pregnancy which is fantastic.
I'm fine from the c-sect I'm very lucky to recover very well from them. I was happy to drive from 3wks (actually a couple days before 3wks). I was up and going to DD activities within 2 weeks much to most peoples amazement but I was feeling fine and Holly is such an easy baby she will just sleep wherever I put her.
Hmm I'm still undecided. The baby is head down now so I cant use that as an excuse! I will have to think long and hard about it in the next few weeks. Everyone is telling me to go natural. I'm just trying to guage how long the recovery is after a caesar.
Just wanted to say thanks to all who've posted on this subject, especially Bridee and Stella's mum. I also had low papp-a results (very low actually - 1.1 MoM) so it's been really reassuring to follow your progress for the past couple of months. There is so much doom and gloom on the internet about this subject but seeing you both do so well has kept my hopes up. I am in the UK where there seems to generally be a lot less knowledge of papp-a. In fact I went to a 'specialist obstetrician' a couple of weeks ago who had never heard of it!
Had my 20 week scan yesterday and my little girl is looking fine so far. I was half expecting for them to find a single umbilical artery like they did with you two but looks like that's one problem I've avoided!
Stella's Mum - have you had the baby yet? If so hope all went well. And Bridee - hope Holly is feeding well and growing strong. Fingers crossed I'll get as many weeks along as you both did.
Im 37 weeks 3 days now! Had a scan yesterday to check on growth. The head is no longer that much larger than the rest of the body, in fact the legs are now in the 50th centile! Abdominal circumference is still hovering at about the 20th and head just below the 50th. The doctor is happy with the growth and we have decided to have a caesar on the 12th, providing she doesn't show up in the meantime! He estimated her weight to be about 2.85kg so hopefully she'll be around 3kg in 11 days time! Really cant wait to meet her now! Cord flow is still unrestricted so that is good news.
Bridee, hope holly is doing well, keep me updated.
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