Posted by Karin on 3/15/2008, 7:52 am, in reply to "Question"
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I was screened many, many, many times with the high-risk OB, but not for PRS. The micrognathia was noted on the first sonogram, at 11-13 weeks for the nuchal translucency, and on all subsequent ones, including the level 2 sonogram. We discussed it, but small chins run in my family, and they didn't think to check for more. I have friends who had a cleft in the family, and they tried hard to find it on the sonogram, but they were not able to find it. Unfortunately, both our kids ended up with PRS.
Oh -- and we also had a sidebar below about how several of us had polyhydramniosis when we were pregnant, which was almost certainly a side effect of the cleft. Basically, for me, all of the signs were there, but we never had PRS in the family and didn't pull the pieces together. Also, they were looking for other things, and there were family histories for polyhydramniosis that misled any attempt at diagnosis.
I'm happy to talk about this further by email if you want to know more.
--Previous Message--
: Hi all-
:
: Sorry I haven't been on in awhile. If you
: don't know me - my 3rd son was born with PRS
: 4 years ago and is doing great. It appeared
: to be an isolated case since there was no
: Sticklers and his brothers are fine.
:
: I found out we are expecting again - yeah! I
: am scheduled to have a level 2 ultrasound
: with a high risk OB at 20 weeks to check for
: PRS but I was wondering if any of you were
: screened in the past and how they did the
: screenings? Specifically, what type of
: ultrasounds and how many did you have to
: have?
:
: Thanks and I pray all your little ones are
: well-
: Marisa
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