My initial gut feeling is that your sister-in-law is right to believe that nothing is wrong. So often I have seen terrible fear dumped on women unecessarily due to some anomaly on an ultrasound scan ... especially if the measurement was done 5 times and only once was it slightly abnormal??
If I was her midwife I would need to read the actual ultrasound report in order to do some research on the woman's behalf to try and get some accurate information for her.
An amniocentesis will only pick-up genetic problems, not morphologic abnormalities. It also carries a 1-2% risk of causing a miscarriage of possibly / probably a perfectly normal foetus.
I'm not sure if this helps at all.
All the best,
Leanne.
From: "Sylvia Boutsalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ozmidwifery] RE: antenatal question Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:34:07 +0930
Hi all,
I'm needing a bit of information if you are able to help me. My sister in law just came home from a 20 week scan. The Gyno told her that there was some space in the baby's brain. He measured the distance from the skull to the inner membrane(??) 5 times and only once did the meaurement come up a percentage difference from the normal. They were strongly advised to have an amnio but they turned it down because they will not abort under any circumstance. They then advised her to go again for another scan in 2 weeks. She turned that down too, as she doesn't want to know (she's in denial as she thinks everything is fine). I'm thinking the scan is a good way of determining whether this 'space' is growing along with the baby. As a childbirth Educator I couldn't answer any of their quesitons. Can anyone shed some light onto this? Sorry this information is sketchy, but they were too stressed to take in any decent information.
Thanks in advance Sylvia Boutsalis Childbirth Educator Infant Massage Instructor Adelaide
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