That was pretty good and the information that you get from the scan is very helpful, because you get a lot of information there. You have a copy of your, the print-out, because I have my medical notes that I keep with me and so you get all the results from the scan and you can look at them and afterwards you're able to ask the midwife, “What's the significance of this? What's that? What's the other?”.
I mean, I think it does mean, to some extent, you have to recognise that the more information you've got, the more there are potential questions that you'll worry about because, for example the information is about averages and so they're measuring your babies according to some set average. And so you have to recognise that, and keep in your mind that what, this is the average and your baby will have its own peculiarities.
But it does mean that anything that's not average or normal or kind of in the middle, makes you think, “Well, what's wrong with this? There's something wrong with that. Is that a problem?” And they, it's easy for them to be reassuring because they say “It's a range, and so long as your baby's within this range then, then that's fine, there's no problem about that.” But I think that it does mean that because you've got this information, you have a need to be reassured, more so than if you never knew about it before.
You know, if you didn't know about the head, abdomen circumference and that being a significant thing, you'd never, you'd never know. You'd just go and say, “Oh, my baby's new. What's your baby like? Is it skinny, is it fat, or whatever, you know, is it fine?” It would be a different sort of experience but, so I think it does place a burden on the medical staff to have to be able to explain the results, because if you see anything that is slightly out of the average and not straight down the middle, then you need an explanation. |
