Short femur length

Mama of 2 🩷👼🏻🩷

So we had our 16 week scan a few weeks ago. All other measurements were normal, however the babies femur length was at the absolute far end of the short side on the scale. The lady said they were measuring short, but they will measure again at the 20 week anatomy scan (which we have next week).

Obviously I’ve been googling (I know, worst thing to do!) and its saying things like it could indicate dwarfism, downs syndrome etc etc and its just scared me a bit that there could be something wrong.

Me and my partner are both quite short, neither of us have long legs at all. Could it just mean our baby will be short?

Has anyone else had short femur measurements and everything been fine?

(Note to self, never google anything again).

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