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Does baby’s profile/nose look okay?

samhain92samhain92 member
in 3rd Trimester
Side note : I know and full on understand this isn’t a place filled with OB knowledge but sometimes some slight reassurance helps.

At 20 weeks baby girl was showing echogenic bowel which resolved itself at 24 weeks. PRUV. And at 33 weeks I had Polyhydramnios which now at 34 weeks has resolved as well. I guess now I’m just nervous because I’m staring at my daughters ultrasound photos over analyzing whether she looks okay and I know ultrasounds aren’t 100 % but I keep reading up on Down syndrome associated with some of what I have. 
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  • samhain92samhain92 member
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  • meggymemeggyme member
    edited June 2022
    Enjoy the pics of your baby and stop reading things that are giving you anxiety.
    DD1: June '16 DD2: March ‘19 :::: Married since 2011 :::: USN Wife ::::
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  • harpseal135harpseal135 member
    Agree w/ Meggyme - stop over analyzing things.  The doctors will keep you updated if there are issues.  To me those look like normal squish faced ultrasound pics.  
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  • nicademus20nicademus20 member
    Normal to me as well. There was one ultrasound where the technician made me so mad because she snapped the photo in the second my baby's head looked like a skull and decided to show me that picture! No eyes, just holes, no nose, empty space. 
    Ultrasounds are nice to look at, if the tech is a decent person, but not great indicators of how things will be. Relax and enjoy the experience :smile: 

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  • paytonpedropaytonpedro member
    I think you got some really amazing pictures regardless of whether or not your baby could have DS. I wish I’d have gotten such cute pics!
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  • rklinge0rklinge0 member
    Ok so take what I have to say with a grain of salt.... my first has down syndrome, they saw a soft marker during 3rd trimester so we had tons of ultrasounds. The last one we had at 36/37 weeks you can kind of tell in one of the many pictures we had. One thing that is pretty common in kids with d.s. is their mouths tend to be open and you may see their tongues, even in ultrasounds because of the low tone.  We also had been teetering on high amniotic fluid levels, one would be normal and the next would be borderline high. 
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  • sarah_with_an_hsarah_with_an_h member
    You can ask your dr about some blood tests to see if there is a chromosome extra/missing, causing high risk. Mine had extra fluid in the spine so visually was a 75% chance of down syndrome. However, the blood test came back normal no high risk, we still seen a specialist for months and now everything is in normal range. But the blood test could help ease the mind or prepare for the road ahead. 
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  • bird_ladybird_lady member
    Ultrasound images are always distorted. You gotta remember that there is layers and layers (skin, fat, fluid, placenta possibly, etc) on top of the baby so it distorts the image. 
    I wouldn’t worry at all. Our baby had a big nose one image and a completely flat nose the next 😂 
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