Today was our NT scan. The NT scan measures your risk for having a baby with Down syndrome, Trisomy 13 and Trisomy 18. Trisomy 13 and 18 are fatal diagnosis. We only did the NT because it would let us know whether or not baby Sprout had a neural tube defect. I had fairly negligible risks before the screening as my risk for Down Syndrome was 1:877 and the risk for the trisomies was 1:1700 or so.
The start of the appointment was a little rough as they had misplaced the paperwork I filled out last week, so I had to refill it out. Then the ultrasound tech had some bedside manners that Darrell wasn’t to fond of, but we were there to make sure baby was fine and that was all that mattered to me. 🙂
We got to see baby moving around a lot and the tech had a hard time getting the right shot of the neck (for the fluid measurement for the NT scan). She was able to measure Sprout and see all of the appendages. Sprouts heartbeat was at 167 which is exactly where it’s been the whole pregnancy, somewhere between 165-170. The tech had to wiggle my belly around to get Sprout to turn into the right position to measure. Sprout finally moved into position and it was a lot of measuring. The tech did 3 measurements of everything. Sprout was measuring on schedule right between 13 weeks 1 day and 13 weeks 5 days, depending on the angle she was measuring. The neck fluid was measured all times between a 0.09-0.11 (They are looking for it to be less than 3.0). The tech also switched the view to blood flow view to make sure everything was flowing like it should and it was pretty awesome.
So after the tech finished the ultrasound, she gave us some pictures and then left to put the numbers into the risk assessment sheet for my actual risk and then the doctor came in with the results. Both of my risks dropped to 1: >10,000 which is the lowest risk you can get for this test. It made us feel a heck of a lot better. Everything looks as though it is developing normally and the doctor is very optimistic that this will be our very healthy take-home baby. 🙂
We were really excited because we have been waiting until after this test to make it “Facebook official.” So we are finally able to share and now we don’t have any more secrets where we have to watch what we say on facebook so we don’t let things slip. 😛
With that, here are the profile shots of baby Sprout: The first three are just regular profile shots and the last one is a face shot. (I think it looks like a little devil mask)
