So today, I am supposed to be 12+4 weeks with our precious baby. DY and I took the day off so that we could have our first trimester screening ultrasound of the baby. My spotting from when I was 6+4 until 9 weeks subsided, my pregnancy symptoms improved slowly but surely. We are young and healthy, everything should be okay. We were incredibly excited to see what our precious little life looks. The sonographer took a series of photos over 15 minutes, then called DY to come in so that we could take a look at our baby. SO CUTE. She showed us the anterior view and our little one was waving his/her hands. We couldn't be more excited. We immediately sent these photos to our parents via Whatsapp.
Hours after the ultrasound, I received a call that I never would have expected from my midwife. She told me the ultrasound identified abnormalities with our baby. I thought I heard her wrong. She continued to explain that the Nuchal Translucency measured 17mm (high normal is 3.4mm) and suggestive of a large cystic hygroma involving the head, neck and back. She went on to further inform me that because abnormality was detected so early in the pregnancy, our baby would have increase risk of Downs Syndrome and other chromosomal disorders up to 50%, heart defects, skeletal defects, and worse, fetal hydrops, in which the baby rarely survives the pregnancy; therefore they have already sent a referral to a high risk specialist and genetic counsellor.
I didn't know how to react but when DY asked me what was wrong, I couldn't hold back my tears any longer, and told him the news. We just held onto each other until I could stop sobbing. DY then proceeded to research various information that is far beyond his mathematical realm of terms and language.
Cystic hygroma occurs in 1 in 285 fetuses... 0.3% chance. We are that 0.3%.
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