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@kml636: Everything turned out well for my LO. We got the fetal echocardiogram done, which was covered by insurance because of the SUA, and also extra ultrasounds. I wanted the echocardiogram because if there was a heart defect I'd want to be aware and ready for LO to have surgery soon after birth. Luckily for us they didn't find anything. They were worried at one point in the 3rd trimester about my belly measuring small but after an ultrasound they found baby was plenty big (she was over a lb bigger at birth than my first LO). At first they said they would induce me by 40 weeks but then they stopped talking about that and said she could come at her own pace since she was growing plenty well, but she ended up coming 3 days early on her own.

We hadn't had any of the 1st trimester screening tests done but still decided against getting an amnio. The severe trisomies should show significant abnormalities on the 20 week anatomy scan.

It was all over the board with what we heard from Drs. A lot of Drs said they don't consider SUA a risk factor at all. Others would quote statistics with high likelihood of LO being born with other abnormalities. From what I could tell from looking at research articles is that if SUA is found in isolation, or without other risk factors, it's unlikely that there's anything wrong.

There's a forum dedicated to SUA that was moderately helpful on babycenter. Best wishes for you and your LO and if you have any other questions let me know .