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tamz8705
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17 weeks along and found out my baby will most likely die within the next 4 weeks.
tamz8705
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I am about 17 weeks along now. This is my 3rd pregnancy, my 2nd miscarried at 7 weeks and my first was a healthy and big 10lb 4oz baby boy. At my 11 week ultrasound everything looked fine but the baby was a little smaller than normal, I've never had normal periods so they just pushed my due date back a week. At my check up last week when I was 16 weeks they couldn't find the heartbeat on the doppler so they did a sonogram and found it, but said that it looked liked something was laying on the baby's head so they referred me to someone else where it could be determined what it was. It turns out that my placenta is not flat like a pancake but huge and taking up a lot of space. The baby's neck and chest are very swollen which they said was cystic hygroma (which from what I've read can be fixed after birth). The big concern is the heart, the doctor could only see one valve in the heart and said that he's 90% sure that in the next 4 weeks the heart will basically give out from not being able to handle it alone. He says that IF we can make it 8 more weeks to 24 weeks they can deliver the baby and do surgery but it's very unlikely it will get that far since there was such a drastic change in such a short amount of time. Also, he said there may be smaller valves in the heart that are just too small to be seen. I am hoping that is the case so I can ask about fetal heart surgery in utero. The heart rate has always been normal which doesn't make sense to me, I thought if it was having to work so hard that it would be higher than normal. Has anyone else had anything like this or known someone who did, that had a positive outcome? They basically want me to wait and when the baby dies, they will induce labor and have me deliver it :-/
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Re: 17 weeks along and found out my baby will most likely die within the next 4 weeks.
-My step-daughter is 12 years old.
-BFP #1 on 9/2/12, D&C 10/18/12 no heartbeat on US @ 10 weeks.
-BFP #2 on 1/7/13, R was born on 9/22/13 via C-Section