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What feels/felt like the longest wait, the 12 week scan or 20 week scan?

For me I feel like the 20 week scan right now is the longest wait. It's not because I care about gender, I just want to know everything is okay and what to buy 😭 but it feels like forever away even though it's this month

High amniotic fluid

I just had a private scan at 26 weeks and I have high amniotic fluid. They have referred us to the hospital. Has anyone else had this and is it bad ?

High amniotic fluid

Just had a private scan at 26 weeks and they told me I have high amniotic fluid.
Anyone else had this and how bad is this ?

Hospital notes

I have received a letter to say I have an appointment coming up but I need to bring my old hospital notes from my previous pregnancy but that was 7 years ago and I cannot find them does anyone know how or if I can get a copy from the hospital or doctor or anything please?

What length were you when opted for cerclage?

I had LLETZ treatment a few years ago so was referred for cervix length checks at booking appointment.
At 18 weeks I was 24.6mm and prescribed 200mg daily progesterone. Went back at 19 + 2 and it reduced slightly to 23.9mm.
My next check is 21 + 3 and feel it may have reduced again. They told me they would likely only give me the stitch if I'm 15mm or less, but I'm worried about leaving it to get that short before stitch. Would love to hear what length/weeks you were when you decided to get stitch, and if it was successful?

Have you had this experience ?

I had my anatomy scan last week and baby looks great! 🥹 Everything looked normal, which was such a relief. When I reviewed the official report afterward, I noticed a diagnosis code that said “Supervision of high risk pregnancy,” and of course that made me a little nervous.

I messaged my doctor about it, and she explained that technically I’m labeled “high risk” because of my starting pregnancy weight (206 lbs), but she reassured me it’s not something they’re actually concerned about in my case. She emphasized that everything looked great on the ultrasound, baby is healthy, and I’m doing amazing so far.

That definitely made me feel a lot better, but I’m curious—has anyone else been told they’re technically high risk just based on weight around 200 lbs? 🥴

gender x

going for my gender scan next week, what are people’s opinions xxx

Early scan

Has anyone had a scan at 6+2 weeks ? What could you see? X

Need opinions

Baby is measuring 5.5mm with no heartbeat
I should be 6.5-7 weeks pregnant
My periods are very irregular so I truly don’t know how far along I actually am.
It’s not unknown for me to skip months !
Anyways how likely is it that baby heart will beat?
They said 50/50 chance that I’m in grey area right now, but I want to know if anyone else has had an experience like this

Moving Dating scan forward as I will be 13 weeks and 6 days - Leeds

I have just received my scan appointment and I will be 13 weeks and 6 days for the appointment.
Google has me worried it is cutting it very fine for the 11-14 week window for the nuchal testing.
14 weeks is the maximum they can do the nuchal testing.
Has anybody had this and been able to move their scan forwards? Particularly in the Leeds area?

Early gender scan/test

Anyone else know the gender of their baby yet? My husband & I did a private blood test last week & found out we’re expecting a little girl🩷

What do we think ? 💗💙

I know it’s only my 12 week scan but what are we thinking. I was 12 week and 5 days pregnant at the time of scan. I am now 13 weeks 3 days

Gender

I just got my NIPT test done yesterday so results will probably take a while. The ultrasound technician said she believe the gender is a girl, how accurate would that be at 13 weeks only? I wanna do a small gender reveal in few days before my husband starts night shifts where I barely see him then 😫

Changed due date

Anyone had their date change at 12 weeks scan?

I used my last period and also fully tracked ovulation, I had a due date Oct 10.

In my 12 week scan they said Oct 15

Now I don’t know which to use as I know the 12 week scan can place things wrong due to the tiniest millimetre off measurement

What did others go by and what was accurate?

Second baby here!

Need to vent to people who understand how frustrating this situation is.

I scheduled my anatomy scan and ob visit for April 20th nearly 2 months ago. I did this because the ob and my schedule doesn’t align often for me to be able to bring my husband with me to the appointment. We shifted several things and got someone to come stay with the kids just to make this happen. Tuesday i get a message saying they had to push my ob visit after the ultrasound back from 1045 to 1130 so now i would be sitting in the office from 10am to who knows when. This was already really inconvenient and annoying. Today they text me 30 minutes after they close for the day on a Friday saying they canceled the appointment completely. I tried to called them immediately but since they were closed i couldn’t get through to anyone. Then i just received a email saying the same thing that my appointment is canceled but that i can reschedule from the app or patient portal which is not true they have no availability for any dates at all if you try to book that way. Both my appointments still show on the portal as well and im so annoyed that i cant even talk to anyone about it until Monday morning.

On top of this at my 16week appointment last week they didn’t pick up baby girls heart beat and said its likely due to my anterior placenta which i also had with my third child and never had an issue getting a heart reading. So i was already anxious about this appointment and counting down the days and now if they reschedule for a different day or time idk how im gonna make it happen. Our usual childcare is out of state for two weeks right around then and thats the only day my husband can come with me, your only allowed one person to be with you at any appointment there so taking my three kids with me isnt an option either. Im just so stressed out at this point. I still havent felt baby move yet and im just getting more depressed by the day about it. Idk how im supposed to enjoy Easter with the family when im feeling so down and stressed out waiting for Monday to get here.

JR scan pictures

Do you pay for the photos before the scan or when you come out before leaving?

Any gender guesses please?

Scan was taken at 12+6 :) other scans from same day in comments

🤞🏻

Had a scan today, measuring a week behind what my period would estimate but it’s bang on from when I think I ovulated (and we only had sex once so…. Bingo 🤣).
Measuring 5 weeks 1 day, sac in right place but nothing else visible yet. Rescan in 10 days. Keeping everything crossed 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Will the anatomy scan reveal boy or girl? Wanting to wait till birth to find out. Will it be spoiled if it's a boy? I know some people can tell immediately..

We are waiting till birth to find out. But scheduling the anatomy scan and i want to look at the ultrasound but i feel like that might spoil the surprise.... should i look away?

Help pls second pregnancy

Been for an early pregnancy scan as my anxiety was too much, thought I’d be 7 weeks with working it out but at the scan I measured early around 5 or 6 but she said it was an empty sac. Is this normal are there any positives of this or does that mean there’s no baby? They’ve told me to come back in 2 weeks time, also said my womb was really far back? I didn’t have this with my daughter I know every pregnancy is different but I saw the little blob really clearly at my early scan with her at 5 weeks so I’m stressed. I also was smoking / vaping the first few weeks without knowing I was pregnant and worried this has what has caused something ? And that I’m worried I’m going to harm the baby by having done this