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Q: Heterotaxy... advice.. comfort.. please??

I went for a normal ultrasound at 13wks 6days. The tech started doing an anatomy scan that they would do at 20wks. She showed me the arms, hands, legs, feet, face, mouth opening/closing, the nose was sooo cute!!!! Then we listened to the heart hrt beat was 153. She said it was nice and strong. Then she started looking around at other stuff. She told me baby was 85mm??? I think it was mm maybe it was cm... she then told me to hold on and left the room. I waited there for 10minutes and a genetic doctor came back with the tech. She introduced herself and said she want to see the baby because it had perfect anatomy. The tech printed me out a ton of pictures and then the doctor grabbed my arm and told me unfortunately the heart has only three chambers in the heart and the stomach is on the wrong side of the body. She termed it as heterotaxy.then she brought me to a room and a nurse came back to let me know I was being referred to chop. Please any advice information kind word are appreciated

This question was asked May. 6, 2012 2:44am
Category: Newly Pregnant

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