The Fetal Medicine Unit
It has been some time since I posted to my blog, and even longer since I touched on our journey through pregnancy. I feel ready again to continue with that story. To recap slightly we had attended our 20-week scan at Stepping Hill hospital to find that our baby’s heart was on the wrong side and potentially not connected. We had been referred to the Fetal Medicine Unit at St Mary’s hospital, Manchester. A week later we arrived at St Mary’s for a further scan with a consultant obstetrician. One thing I will say is that thank goodness you only need a full bladder for your initial 12-week scan. All my further scans, and there were many, did not require this. The consultant scanned my belly thoroughly and we were then sent to wait in the consultation rooms. Funnily enough these rooms did not have the same feeling as the room at Stepping Hill. They were more clinical; I did not feel that oppressive weight of bad news that I had felt in Stepping Hill. The obstetrician came to discuss he...