Hi all,
My wife and are expecting our first child. We are very excited! We had a viability scan and confirmed everything was ok and the GA was 7w4d.
We went back on Monday for the usual 10 - 14 week dating scan and screening. The CRL was at 78mm so baby looks like it is growing well and the computer said the GA was 13w5d. The sonographer left it as 13w though as that matched what the viability scan said.
My wife is 25 and the scan went well, it was amazing seeing thr baby pushing itself around.
The NT was taken and measured 2.8mm, they struggled to get a measurement and they took a while before settling on that, it ranged from 2.1mm to 2.8mm. The sonographer said it was the high end of normal but still ok. Nasal bone was present and he took measurements of the skull and checked the organs and no concern was raised.
We went off for the bloods and at no point did we consider anything would be wrong or implied that anything could be wrong by the staff. We left elated and happy we had just seen our baby moving around with a strong heartbeat.
2 days later my wife called me and said we had a high risk for downs syndrome.. 1/144 chance. (I understand this is on the better end of the scale but still to us we were in shock).
We have always decided that unless the baby is very ill we would always continue with the pregnancy.
We went in and the midwife spoke to us.and went through the options, she briefly explained that due to a higher NT and low PAP-A (0.37 cut off 0.4) probably caused this. They suggested the IONA test that she had on Thursday so waiting for the results. I wanted to have this as if the child had downs we could prepare the best we can.
The issue is I just cant understand why this has happened.
I'm annoyed with myself that I made my wife have these tests as my naivity 6 months ago making comments that I couldn't support a child with downs and that I'd abort it made us have these tests. I felt that the NHS did not prepare us at all for this as they said itll be fine, she is young and healthy..
I'm hoping everything will be ok either way and we have a healthy baby but I am racked with guilt over my comments and wish we never bothered with the tests. We both have made a pact that regardless of the results we are not doing the combined test again unless anomalies are raised during a scan..
Sorry for long post just needed to vent.
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Dan1986 · 27/07/2019 09:44
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