This was such an exciting ultra sound! Little P looks like a baby! Plus P's little system is fully functioning! The stomach was full as well as the bladder and you could see P swallowing! It was so cool and amazing! you could see both arms, hands, legs and feet as well as the tiny finger buds and toe buds! They did a screen where you could see the blood pumping from the heart and through the body. It was just so exciting ans crazy that Little P is so small (58cm or about 2 1/4 inch) and all of this is already happening.
Grandma Linda came and was so excited to see Little P for the first time!
Also W called and got to hear the heartbeat over the phone...he said it sounded like a drum beat:)
And onto the UltraScreen. The tech measured the nuchal translucency (the fluid accumulation behind the neck of the fetus)and also looked at how the nasal passage had developed. The tech said they started doing this because baby's with Down's usually have a different nasal passage then non-Down baby's. Plus they prick your finger and take five dots of blood to test for two chemicals called free Beta human chorionic gonadotropin, and pregnancy associated plasma protein-A(PAPP-A) which are normally found in the blood of all pregnant women. I will not get the results of the blood test until later this week however the measurment for the Fluid in the neck was within normal range and Little P has all four chambers of the nasal passage already formed. So both are good signs so far that there is no Downs for Little P yet. Which is exciting to know!
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