I'm 41 and have a healthy 18 month old daughter. I am currently 21 weeks pregnant and had my 20 week scan a week ago
Baby measured on the 8th centile but personally I wasn't worried until I was called back urgently just a few days later for another scan where baby was found to be measuring on the 3rd centile
The fetal medicine sonographer then advised me to have an amnio which I thought was overkill for just a baby that's measuring small. She also kept saying she couldn't see anything wrong with the baby so perhaps there's something she can't see.
I asked to have the TORC to rule out infection and the NIPT tests, even though the combined screening came back low risk.
In the meantime I did go for the amnio which I had done yesterday, TORC results are clear however the NIPT came back as high
I hadn't thought Down's could be a possibility - the usual soft markers werent present like the nuchal fluid levels looked normal for example however the more I read the more I see that a short femur which baby has, can also be a soft marker
I am not sure what I am trying to get from this post. I am hoping the NIPT is a false positive and the amnio will show all clear but honestly I dont feel hopeful.
Everyone keeps saying how effective the nIPT is and for me to be that 1% that it gets wrong just feels incredibly fortunate, too true to actually be true and even entertain in my mind
Long shot, but has anyone been through anything remotely similar? We will tfmr if its bad news only because I wouldnt' be able to cope with the uncertainty of the extent of the baby's potential disability, and most important couldnt put my daughter through that either, shed miss out on so much