Small Stomach picked up in ultrasound...

[Jopella2]

I'm 34 weeks pregnant and had to get a scan this morning as I've had a low lying placenta.

The good news is that the placenta has moved out of the way and baby's head is down ready to go.:smiliedance:

But the scan picked up that my baby has a small stomach and I have to have another scan in 2 weeks time to check if it's growing.

I didn't really understand what it all meant. The Dr said he wasn't too worried at this stage. Everything else appears fine like blood flow, movement etc..

I really don't want to google this. Has anyone else been through this and what was your outcome?

[mumofKieran]

I haven't been through this but I know someone who had a similar thing - her baby's kidneys were measured as large and she had to have repeat scans etc and then tests after he was born, and everything was completely normal.

I sometimes wonder how accurate the measurements given by an ultrasound really are. When I was 40 weeks, I had a scan which measured the baby as being very small, with a very small head (he was measured as being the average size of a 36 week foetus). When he was born, he was 8 lb 4 oz and had a head circumference of 35.5cm. So he wasn't small at all.

[Jopella2]

Well on reading the report, it says that the fetus is small. I thought he was just saying the stomach was small in comparison to the rest of the baby.

I did end up doing a google search :rolleyes: and measuring the circumference of the abdomen is one way to get an indication of the baby size. So why didn't he just say that? He carried on with a lot of Dr dribble which I couldn't understand.

Anyway, you're right - it's not acurate. With my DS, I had to have scans at 36 weeks because they thought he was too big - he ended up being 8lbs 4 ounces like your bub which isn't massive - just on the other side of average I guess.

I'll be seeing my OB soon anyway so she'll be able to explain it all to me.

thanks! :)

[lil'pixie&me]

my 20wk scan said that my dd had a small kidney, but it was wrong 2 weeks later i got a NAD(no abnormalitys detected) from the next ultra sound.
hope it goes well :fingerscrossed::yes: