u/Individual_Sweet_465

Im hoping to get some information as this is, from what I can tell, a very rare case.

I’m 32 weeks pregnant and at a 32 week ultrasound (a bit early because baby girl is measuring pretty small, but still proportionate and within normal range) there was what the doctor believes to be a lipoma in my baby’s brain.

She didn’t give me much information, but from the images I saw it matches up pretty perfectly with lipomas around the corpus callosum. She said she doesn’t believe it looks like any kind of hemorrhage or signs of a previous stroke, as there are no other anomalies or damage to the brain that could be seen on the ultrasound.

I’ve been referred to have an MRI and consult with pediatric neurology, hopefully ASAP as the anxiety of not knowing literally anything is killing me.

I’ve also been trying to find any research on this and there’s…not much. I’ve read a case study or two and found some posts from people that were diagnosed as adults. It sounds like many times it is pretty asymptomatic, benign, and slow growing, if at all. But there’s also accounts of it causing things like migraines, seizures, epilepsy, and more depending on size, type, and if the corpus callosum is fully formed or not.

If anyone has any information about this or even has been diagnosed with the same lipoma, I would really appreciate anything you can tell me while I wait for the MRI and everything.

I just had a quick ultrasound at 32 weeks and they’re sending me to a more detailed ultrasound clinic in the hospital because the BPD is measuring really small at <1%. Also the abdomen is in the 3rd percentile.

I’m trying not to worry because my OB supposedly isn’t really worried. The EFW has improved, she was only in the 14th percentile at my anatomy scan in the 2nd trimester and now she’s in the 27th. Which I guess is confusing to me because I thought the ultrasound tech said she’s at over 4lbs, which would be like 50-60th for weight. But I guess size overall is small? Idk how this even works. Everything was normal at that first anatomy scan other than being a bit small. I’m only 5’2 as well. My other daughter has always been around 50th for weight but more like 10-25th for height, even now at almost 8 years old she’s extremely short but average-ish for weight.

I also have an anterior placenta which I hear can make it harder to get proper imaging, and she’s head down so I’m again trying not to really worry to much…but I can’t help it. I’ve seen other moms post that they too were measuring small heads that came out completely normal or average. My first pregnancy never had any issues at all and she was just always in the 50th percentile range so this is completely new to me and I’m scared.