CVS at St. Michael's in Bristol?

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Hi Everyone! :-)

From everything I've read, the miscarriage risk for CVS seems to be mainly down to who's doing it-- their equipment, how experienced they are, etc.

Unfortunately, my midwife could only give me the national average risk factor, which of course is awful (or at least it seems awful to me at this moment in time).

Is there anyone out there who could please provide some information (any tidbits would be appreciated!) on the service at Bristol? I asked my midwife, and she said the CVS would be done in the obs dept., not the Fetal Medicine Unit, but I'm not entirely convinced that she's right about that.

Many thanks!

It would definitely be done in FMU. As far as I know the risk factors for the consultants there is lower than the national average but they'd probably still quote you the national risk. The consultants there are brilliant. Good luck!

We weren't there but our consultant volunteered her numbers for amniocentesis on the day.

The averages aren't as bad as they sound either - they can't tell which miscarriages would sadly have happened anyway, so count them all.