Who to phone out of hours?

[RhubarbOra]

I have just received my harmony results via email and at the end it says:

"We were able to report a trisomy probability assessment but were not able to provide a result for the fetal sex portion of the analysis. In approximately 1.5% of cases, we are not able to report a result for the fetal sex analysis. There are many possible reasons for this. Technical reasons include variance in the assay data. Biological reasons may include a maternal chromosome condition (such as mosaic monosomy X or XXX), mosaicism (maternal, fetal, or placental), demised co-twin, or copy number variant. In the case of a biological cause, repeat analysis would not be expected to yield a result"

I have no idea what any of this means. I am extremely anxious and panicky. I've had so many scared and complications so far that I don't know what to do anymore. I feel like I'm waiting for this pregnancy to come to an end any second and really feel like I need these results explained tonight.

Can anyone advise on who I need to call. If there is anyone at all who could explain this to me? It seems a short time to wait until tomorrow but I don't think I can cope with the stress of it.

My understanding of all that is that they’ve performed the test, but they cannot determine the sex of the baby from the results.

They are stating that this only happens around 1.5% of the time (so 1.5 in 100 pregnancies tested) and it could be for a number of reasons.

It doesn’t sound like there’s cause for concern from the letter. I would expect that they would follow up with you if they thought it could be for a biological reason.

Hope this helps, it should at least bump this in case anyone knows more :)

There’s some information here about the gender part of the test www.babyvision.co.uk/early-pregnancy/the-harmony-prenatal-test/

From what I’ve found it seems to be that people who have the test at 10/12 weeks don’t always have enough of the baby’s DNA in the sample to show an accurate gender result. There are lots of forum discussions on it and that seems to be the main theme and they’ve all been offered another blood test.

Try not to worry too much tonight (much easier said than done I know!) and contact the clinic/company that ran the test in the morning. If you’ve had your booking in appointment the phone number for your maternity unit should be in your notes and you can call them anytime for advice/reassurance.

Hope someone on here can give you a medical take on it tonight though.

How ridiculous of them to send such medical jargon to a patient.
They can't tell the baby's gender from the test.

Sorry posted too soon. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the baby. It means the sample didn't give them the information on gender.