20 week scan & foetal echocardigram

Ok so this update is a little late, but I've had plenty going on in my life.


Firstly, I best admit that I have announced via my personal Facebook account that I am having my third little boy.
I found out at 16 weeks, via a private gender scan, of which I attended alone, as did I the 20 week scan and foetal echo.

Firstly, the 20 week scan went well. Again, an hour wait to be seen - in which time I read 'Performance French Cars' and obviously skipped the Renault pages ;)

Finally I get called in, I lay down and the scan begins. First of all measuring the fluid inside the babies brain etc. Towards the end of the scan, the sonographer said 'Well, clearly you make big babies then'
Having had my biggest baby at only 7lb 8oz I immediately asked 'what?'
She said 'well babies quite big for this gestation'
She went away and tapped on a computer keyboard and returned to advise me the stomach on the baby is on the MAXIMUM for normal at this gestation. It is not quite classed as abnormal growth - but is already classed as above average growth according to the scans.
Also above average for this gestation are his legs (longer than usual) and his head (oh, brilliant!)
The sonographer advised me with growth this significant I will probably be offered growth scans and offered a GTT (glucose tolerance test), although this I have already declined UNLESS there is good reason or cause (for example, glucose in my sample, my belly measuring more than 4cm above the expected for this gestation etc).

Since the scan I have had tests for glucose in my sample and all have been negative, so maybe with the babies DNA in mind, he is following his parents and will be on the large side because of us.

The baby is already weighing more than he should - he weighs 1lb 1oz. (Which is approx 5-6 oz MORE than he should).


Here is 1/5 scan photos.
This one in particular tickled me because of his Father and I love of driving - and it looks like the baby had his foot to the floor in this photo too.

(Please note: I have taken the liberty of watermarking my photos that I share again. For the pure fact, one I took last Winter became VIRAL on the internet for St Valentines Day of this year. Since I was so fickle as to not watermark that photo, I have again decided to play safe. My photos are strictly my property and to save my image to your hard drive, or to share it without my consent is copy write theft).

And for good measure, let's share a bump picture too.

Besides the occasional morning sickness and feeling faint spell the pregnancy is going well.
I won't lie, I am finding being a Single Mum and pregnant extremely hard work. The stairs are already challenging me, as is bending down to credit the gas on the gas meter, and don't even get me started on walking.

Of course it doesn't help that since becoming pregnant I have had to quit all my fibromyalgia meds.

I also think I am highly depressed at the moment, but this is something I am trying to sort out myself. I don't wish to be drugged up, groggy day in day out - sleep off the depressive state. I wish to fight it if I can. If I have to admit defeat and visit the doctors I shall.


The foetal echocardigram went fine also. The consultant asked about Meghan's condition and I advised her that the babies Father's sister was also born with a severe CHD - but thankfully she is too distant for there to be any increased risk to this baby.
She looked at all the blood vessels and the blow flow, chambers within the heart etc and said she couldn't rule out all VSD's until after the birth of the baby BUT there is certainly no ToF present, nor any other CHD.

Fingers crossed there is no VSD at birth - but if there is, it's just the duct that hasn't closed (most commonly present in pre-term babies).