“in antenatal stage at my 20-week scan, where you know I was
going there really excited to find out what, am I going to have a boy or
a girl. Half-way through the scan the lady who was doing the scan kind
of went quiet and then said that she needs to get her
colleague….and I just straight away knew there was something
wrong. The other lady came in and she did say that she can’t see his
stomach. They got me an appointment the following day to see a
consultant and then we discovered that his stomach is placed on the
other side. So, through the antenatal stage I had lots of scans, I went
to see the doctor, cardiologist to check his heart. Then I had a c
section…. it was just horrendous. …. they took him out, I
had him with me just a few seconds and they take him to intensive care
unit because they had to check him ….. I couldn’t see him for
like 5 hours, I didn’t know what was going on.” (mother 15)
Parents credited the identification of abnormal situs to an earlier
diagnosis for their child. Some parents remembered PCD being mentioned
as a possibility during their pregnancy or shortly after.