Terrified of amnio results

[MrsMooky]

I'm 20 weeks and thought the pregnancy was going perfectly. No monrning sickeness whatsoever, bags of energy, I'm even glowing for christs sake. It was a colossal shock this morning to get a call from the hospital telling me that my downs risk is 1:50 (I conceived at 35, now am 36, NT was 1.6mm). I got an anomaly scan and amnio this afternoon but am absolutely petrified of the results. My doctor and consultant said the baby looks perfect - but is that a good sign? After the bloods look risky? I feel like can't deal with this. My dad died a week before I found out I was pregnant, I can't do more grieving this soon. I was meant to be finding out the sex tomorow but decided not to in case things do not go well. Reassurance needed..please.. 1:50 is not SO bad, is it??

Sorry you're in this position, it's a torturous place to be. Your odds aren't that bad and undoubtedly your age will have pushed them up a bit. Good nuchal and good scans don't mean there's definately not a problem but they are good signs so try to be positive. It's hard not to get ahead of yourself in this situation and as you are still greiving for your dad it is a very tough time.

I had odds of 1 in 13 for downs last year from bloods alone. It wasn't a good outcome for us, not downs but something very rare found in the full results and we ended the pregnancy at 20 weeks which was devastating. But unlike you I didn't have a nuchal measurement so don't know what that would have been. I also felt something was wrong right from the positive pregnancy test.

Try and rest over the next couple of days and good luck.

When did they take the blood?

Hi

I had this 6 years ago with my ds 20 weeks knock at the door from midwife and I felt like my world had fell apart. I was 26 at the time and mine was 1/100.

I had the amnio for us it was a nightmare as they dident take enough fluid so it took us a month to get the results as they had to grow the cells.

Luckily everything was fine and that enabled us to find out the sex. Good luck put your feet up and rest. Sorry to hear about your dad.

Bloods were taken ten days ago, so roughly at 17 weeks - does that have an impact?

I thought they were usually done earlier - at the same time as the nuchal. From a quick google I see they can be done in first trimester or second. I guess it's the latter for you. Did they combine the bloods with the nuchal result to work out your overall result?

I guess so. I specifically requested bloods as well becasue I was worried there might be a problem (irrationally, I thought), my midwife told me it was somewhat pointless as the nuchal is more accurate.

Well hang on to that then. I assume the anomaly scan looked ok for the heart?

Everything looked fine - the consultant actually said that the baby looked perfect; limb length all good, heart working fine, nothing facial to suggest a problem. Veering between cautious optimism and complete meltdown :(

Ok - so even if your baby has something up with it's chromosomes then it has a healthy heart. That is really good news.
Leaving that aside though I wouldn't let myself be optimistic if I was in your shoes either. It's really scary. They should let you know in a few days about the amnio shouldn't they?

A good scan is a good sign (not definitive, but a good sign). And 1:50, as already mentioned, means 45:50 everything is fine. Or otherwise put, 98% chance everything is fine.

I had 1:15 aged 35, none of my results were 'brilliant' (blood tests or nuchal fold) but the thing that really pushed my risk was one of the blood test results. I had a CVS as I was earlier on and got the all clear.

I'm so sorry to hear about your Dad. It's a lot to deal with, be kind to yourself.

Claire x

Hi Mrs Mooky how's things ?

Pretty awful.. but I haven't had the results yet. Just in pieces imagining the worst. I rather think I might be driving my husband mad. But I am trying to think that good nuchal plus good scans plus 1:50 is not SO bad, things might be okay... and the bloods seem to have quite a high error rate (or so I gather from my utterly compulsive googling). I don't know how to do another day or two of this - my poor dog is totally exhausted; walking him is the only thing that clears my head for a bit!

Thank you so much. It's an utter utter bugger. The amount of women that go through this every week - jesus - though in a way its nice to feel like its not that unusual - not that I would wish this on my worst enemy. I'll be making a donation to ARC once this is done, not matter what the results.

I know. I just wish they'd have given me the cvs early so I didn't have this worry so late on :( Seems unbelievable that a few days ago i was so excited and now I am just so scared. But, nothing is set in stone yet. Or so I keep telling myself.

Heh - great minds think alike - I made a donation to ARC the day of my amnio too!

I hope the wait is over for you soon and you get great news. It really does seem to be the case that the bloodwork risks tend to get better results anecdotally despite what doctors say. Perhaps because there are more innocent explanations for a low PAPP-A or high bHCG, but a bad NT measurement is more likely to spell trouble.

Aha - did I just read on another thread that your results have just come back clear? If so, huge huge congratulations to you! Bet the days seem pretty empty when they're not filled with panic attacks! And thank you for the good wishes x

I know how you feel as I say I had to wait a month for my results and it just broke my heart. Alot of people try and give you advice aswell and you just want to scream. Be kind to yourself get some rest and im sure everything will be fine xxx

When do you get your results back MrsMooky? I know how you feel although i had a cvs done but the 10 day wait was agonising. Then they rang me (i was supposed to ring them) on the thursday night with thankfully great news.
Keeping fingers crossed for you.

Hopefully tomorrow for the initial ones (which will really put my mind at rest), so only a three day wait - seems like an eternity, but when I read about women waiting for much longer I know its not too bad. Any longer though and I swear it would drive me to drink, baby or not! I'm really pleased you got good news, congratulations x

Hello

Got my fingers, toes and all crossed for you - just hold onto 49 out of 50 chance of all being fine. Your nuchal fold isn't too bad either. I recently had a NF measurement of 5.8 and was given a 1 in 2 chance before my CVS, I was told to remember this meant there was a 50% chance all would be ok! Having done lots of research, I would say your chances are pretty good. I have been told if I get P again I automatically have a 1 in 100 chance of there being a prob, but hey, that's 99 out of 100 being ok! hang on in there!! Dont' be hard on yourself and good luck - hope it goes ok, thinking of you;) xx

Just got a call from the hospital - initial results are all fine! I need to wait for the full results in to see if anything else is up but definitely no DS, Pataus or Edwards. The nurse told me she suspected a flawed bloods result given my other tests, so here's hoping for that and that everything is okay with the full screen. Celebrating anyway! Thank you all so much for your help, advice, well wishes and support x x x

Great news.