We are 11+2, had dating scan today (2 m/c last year, including a missed m/c, so was very tense) and all seems fine.
I am 35 and was expecting to be offered a nuchal scan as a matter of course. However it was offered as a choice, not as a matter of course and we were expected to make up our minds on the spot. We just couldn't, so we declined it. DH and I have no knowledge of Downs, but right now we couldn't even possibly think of terminating a pregnancy because the baby wasn't "perfect", that's why we've declined it. Are we being naive? Our parents have made it perfectly clear that they think we are idiots for refusing the scan.
I suspect I am terrified of it coming out positive, and then I would really have to challenge my views and consider the alternatives.
Has anyone else had to wrestle with this?
Anyone got experience of Downs?
How have other people arrived at their decisions?
Should we have been offered the test as a matter of course?
By the way, we know that it isn't invasive and it is only amnio and CVS which may possibly harm the baby.
Any thoughts/advice gratefully received
Thx
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To nuchal scan or not to nuchal scan...
waitinggirl · 04/06/2008 22:47
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