SUA... anyone else? Help!

Question

Hey everyone,
So we found out at 17 weeks that our baby girl has SUA which is a umbilical cord with one artery and one vein instead of two arteries. I made the mistake googling it and now I'm worried about everything that can go wrong. Has anyone ever dealt with this or currently dealing with it? 20 weeks tomorrow and I'm just hoping for a healthy rest of pregnancy!

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I'm at 31 weeks today and we definitely have SUA. Thankfully we found out after we had done some genetic testing so we already knew baby was ok. Right now we just have to worry about his size. He was in the 31st percentile for size when we found out. Last week he measured at the 57th percentile so he hit a growth spurt!
It's scary but as long as the abnormalities are ruled out by your specialist, then you're ok. The doctors and nurses I've seen have all said not to worry and that so many babies are born ok without anyone even noticing the SUA until after the baby was born. Good luck and I know it's hard but try not to worry too much!!!

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At 16 weeks we were told that one of our twins has that. At 20, when he was bigger, doctor saw the second artery, so it turned out to be a false alarm. But when at 16 weeks he first talked to us about it he said that as long as it's isolated and the baby has no other issues "he's not impressed" (his words). I think they were looking at kidneys and the heart and were saying we'd have to monitor these closely.

SUA... anyone else? Help!

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