hi ladies
I guess I'm just looking for advice/ opinions/ reassurance.
Am currently 13.5 w pg with dc4. Nuchal test 2 weeks ago gave risk of 1:6728 for T21 (am 36 yo) but I was still undecided about whether to have a CVS. Since the baby's heartrate was at the higher end of normal, they have asked me to come back for another scan (tomorrow) and I can decide then whether I want invasive testing.
Now I know that the risk is minimal and most people would opt not to have testing with these numbers but my history is this:
DC1 - no nuchal, severe fetal anomalies detected at 19 week scan, amnio confirmed fatal chromosomal rearrangement at pg was terminated.
DC2: low risk nuchal, no testing, healthy baby
DC3: nuchal 1:6, CVS performed, healthy baby
Something in me can't help but think that since DC3 was high risk and fine, who's to say that this baby is not low risk and not fine?
Also, am a naturally (and, I admit, foolishly) superstitious person - and today at playgroup, in the course of conversation, another mum said "oh, everyone I know with a child with Down's Syndrome had a nuchal with, like 1 in 7000" (she has a disabled child so knows a lot of mums with children with T21)
Of course I came away thinking "SIGN!! SIGN!! It's a sign!!"
I know I am being irrational, but at the same time, as the sonographer said to me on the night of the nuchal "we can't guarantee who that one person in 6728 might be." Am I better off just knowing for sure rather than being dogged by doubt for the next 24 weeks?
any advice really welcome.
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TO CVS OR NOT TO CVS??
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LetThemEatCake · 24/03/2009 16:24
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