Ultrasound accuracy after lightening?

[Anonymous]

After the baby's head is engaged fairly deep in the pelvis, since ultrasound can't see through bone, is it even possible for them to get accurate head measurements or images?

[Anonymous]

In my experience no - eg my late ultrasound said 99% for head and he was born 50th a few days later. And my kids were both very low. It’s called the I wet my pants club. Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my experience no - eg my late ultrasound said 99% for head and he was born 50th a few days later. And my kids were both very low. It’s called the I wet my pants club. Lol

Oh my, did they induce you based on the false measurement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In my experience no - eg my late ultrasound said 99% for head and he was born 50th a few days later. And my kids were both very low. It’s called the I wet my pants club. Lol

Oh my, did they induce you based on the false measurement?

Same happened to me. They thought my DD was 14 pounds and had a huge head. She was born of normal size and weight. Yes, induced because they couldn't properly assess me.

[Anonymous]

They do this so they can induce on their schedule, as opposed to having to go to the hospital on babies schedule. I knew this when they tried to indices for my "large" baby back in 2002, I told them no thank you, 8 lb 2 oz baby was not too large

[Anonymous]

At 37 weeks I was measuring small (obviously due to the baby dropping, but ok) so they sent me for an ultrasound. They said baby was measuring 16th percentile and that I might be trending toward IUGR, maybe they would induce me in my 39th week, ugh.

I ended up going into labor a few days later and delivered at 38+4, baby was 40%+ for weight and like 30th for length. Absolutely not IUGR, baby wasn’t even small. Baby had just dropped because I was about to give birth!!

[Anonymous]

I had a BPP say the baby was a full pound lighter than he actually was a few hours later when he came by urgent C section

I have a friend who was told her baby was huge and would die if she tried to have a vaginal birth and he came out in a couple pushes, I forget how much lighter than what the ultrasound said several pounds

The baby should be ballot-able and estimated to within a pound but physical exam skills went in the toilet with modern medicine

[Anonymous]

I had monthly ultrasounds when my first was measuring large. At the last ultrasound they estimated him at around 9lbs but he was just shy of 11 lbs so ymmv!