Our Fetal Medicine appointment 💛

Well our Fetal appointment didn't quite go to how I'd planned. Four days after our first scan we got an appointment! 
Before the appointment I'd felt hope a lot of hope that maybe we were going to be one of the lucky ones who's hygroma does solve itself and that will be that, I also felt very nervous. The nerves got worse as I waited and waited to go in!
Finally I was called in and the scan began and there was my beautiful beautiful wiggly baby with a fabulous heart beat 🥰 the hygroma was still unfortunately there and baby also had 2 bilateral cysts either side! The doctor asked if I wanted to have a CVS to do a closer check for chromosone disorders which I agreed to as I'd been searching syndromes and I'd read about Edwards and patau syndrome and had come to the decision in my head if it was one of these I did not want my baby to suffer (Edwards survival rate after birth is a day and then till 1 then early adulthood but they will have a lot of things wrong and the quality of life can be very poor and as a parent nobody wishes that for their child) I think that working with adults with learning disabilities helped me come to that decision!

So the CVS procedure was definitely not one I'd want again any time soon! It was uncomfortable and I hate needles and having a massive needle stuck into my placenta was definitely not what I wanted but it was for my baby and I would do anything to protect them and give them the best life possible! After the procedure she checked the heartbeat again and still strong this baby is a fighter!!

I had another blood test (which the nurse didn't want to actually do due to my previous blood test messing up my arm!!) and left feeling absolutely defeated and hopeless but determined to try be positive for this baby! 

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