Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Pregnancy

Talk about every stage of pregnancy, from early symptoms to preparing for birth.

NIPT / NHS

26 replies

Sandrine1982 · 08/01/2019 10:55

Hi there. There have been many posts about this so sorry for yet another one. I am 36 years old and 6 weeks pregnant (my first ever pregnancy). I've got my first NHS scan and combined test lined up for when I'm 12 weeks. But reading up on all the info, I'm getting extremely anxious about the accuracy of these tests. I am a big worrier and all the low and high risk business just sounds a bit vague to me. Plus I'm scared that my age alone will inflate the risk significantly. I'm looking at private NIPT options (Harmony, Panorama) and thinking of having it as well as the NHS one. Have people done this? And what were your results from both? What was the difference in odds/numbers? And finally, what was the outcome when baby was born? I'm worried that the NHS test might cast a cloud over the private one although I know that in theory the private one is much more accurate. I basically also want to avoid having the CVS / amnio because of the risk of miscarriage. I would just to love to hear some stories from people who have had both tests - private and NHS. Thanks so much in advance. Sx

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Megan2018 · 10/01/2019 15:33

@anniehm
In our circumstances we would abort if there was any chromosomal abnormality detected (following a diagnostic result - not solely off the back of NIPT). I am anxious to know the NIPT result as soon as possible so that a termination is possible early - but obviously it is a deeply personal decision.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page