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Turner Cole’s Birth Story: A Pandemic Baby
For Turners birth story, I’d like to rewind back to 30 weeks of pregnancy, when I went to my regular pre-natal doctors appointment and my “fundal height” measured THREE WEEKS AHEAD. The fundal height is the measurement in centimeters from the pubic bone to the top of the uterus. The expectation isthat after 24 weeks gestation, the measurement matches the weeks of pregnancy. So while my weight gain was “on track”, my physician did think it was important to order an early “growth scan” or ultrasound to measure baby as well as the amount of fluid in my amniotic sac. Both things we expected to be “normal” but were important…