I have new Beaner pics. Yet, I haven't looked at them once since the Dr.s office yesterday. I don't mean to jump boat or anything, but I think it's time I do what I do best and pursue the answers. I am going to make myself another appointment, tomorrow in fact, in order to discuss with my normal doctor a second consult visit for ultrasound. The ultrasound doctor yesterday was the bearer of bad news, and I'm beginning to get suspicious. He placed our baby below the 10th percentile for fetal growth at this point. This was based on leg/head/stomach measurements. Yet, when those measurements are computed in the GE ultrasound machine, the machine approximates baby weight at 2 pounds. This makes no sense when you begin to research/know/are told that a 2 pound baby at 27 weeks pregnant is perfectly normal. Yet, if the measurements of the baby is small, then how can the baby be 2 pounds and vice versa? Unless.... either 1. something is wrong or 2. the measurements are off. Fundal height is up to date and correct and my weight gain has certainly been obvious and regular, so I really don't know what is going on.
The major questions arise when we look back at the pattern with our ultrasound doctor from the beginning. In the beginning, he said I had a heart shaped uterus. The next appointment that was quickly dismissed and apparently no longer an issue. Then it came up again as something just to keep an eye on. Last appointment he told us the baby was measuring small which is why we went again yesterday to see if growth continued, which it did, just not at the rate he thinks it should be going. Then yesterday he said "Did I mention last time your baby was breached? Well it still is." No, he did NOT mention that. And then I got all concerned about it, except for again if you do the research and gain knowledge from knowledgeable sources (other moms, other nurses, and other doctors) you will find that a breached baby this early is still okay because babies could turn up to 38 weeks and some even days before delivery. So why does this doctor seem so concerned with it?
He seems to be fairly intelligent and he is a nice guy, he is older so he has experience. Which is exactly why I want a second opinion, either from an obgyn ultrasound doctor or a maternal fetal medicine doctor. Yes, they might be annoyed at me about being so direct with my requests when I am not the knowledgeable one, yet, I am the one that will or will not have a baby and that could depend on how involved I choose to be.
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