Fetal anomalies

Sharing here because we kept most of our family and friends in the dark and plan to continue to do the same. We are young, 27 & 26 with no history or abnormalities in the family and I have a beautiful son which was a perfectly healthy pregnancy minus a subchorionic hemorrhage in the beginning. Fast forward to pregnancy #2 with a sweet baby girl!

Everything had been going smoothly, measuring right along and never any questions on 12 and 20 week scans. At 36 weeks, my office does a growth scan. Helps parents and doctors know what to expect and get one last look at baby. After ample time spent measuring and looking and measuring some more, they found an FIUVV (or dilated umbilical vein) in the baby. This is very rare, not many studies and of those that have been done, they’ve found some to have abnormalities that were previously missed or developed after 20 weeks. - With both pregnancies, I opted out of the NIPT testing. I felt no need to know such information because I know after all, no matter what my childs outcome was, we would love he/she just the same and do everything we could for them regardless of any possible diagnosis. After finding out about the dilated vein, the doctors suggested MaterniT21 testing which uses the mothers blood to test for fetal syndromes and now they can customize it for most syndromes minus the super rare ones. They also sent me to a high risk doctor who confirmed one out of two things: she was NOT as small as the OB said she was (not in the 11th percentile, but in the 30th) and she DID have the dilated vein. So I get the testing done thinking to myself ‘please be okay. I’ve loved you for 9 months and I want you to live a healthy normal life’ thinking things I never thought I’d be so adamant about thinking because I know no matter what, she is loved regardless of any anomalies!! But I got the testing back and again, I feel relieved. She is healthy, and all the tests for the syndromes they COULD run, are negative!!!! I’m not mom shaming myself, I deserve to feel that relief. I just also know i felt so much anxiety waiting for results everyone felt would be fine and that she is just simply small! (Which is odd, my son was 9lb 7oz) and they don’t estimate her to come out weighing any more than 6 1/2lbs! But that’s okay. We could have some other stuff to possibly deal with like a heart issue, but due to the late term discovery of her cord issue, we were not able to get into the fetal heart echocardiogram. The rest is unknown but most of my worries are at ease. As for the rest of my pregnancy that I planned to spend every waking second with my first born before this little arrives, has changed. Now I spend one half day a week making sure her cord doesn’t rupture or anything of that nature getting NST’s & ultrasounds - checking to see the umbilical vein dilation hasn’t grown and praying I get to go into natural labor and delivery a perfectly healthy baby girl into our loving family. God is good. 💕