To NIPT or not?!

[Princesspoppy27]

32 and pregnant with dc2. Combined screening results are great for my age (1:6,000) but conscious this is a huge change from when tested with dc1 2 years ago (1:100,000). I am older which will impact the calculation but it seems it is my beta hCG which has resulted in the higher result this time (2.20). The NT and Papp-a are both ‘fine’.

Would you incur the NIPT cost? We could afford it but not sure if worth the money with a risk factor as good as this? Has anyone done it in similar circumstances and it made them feel better?

I think a lot depends on what you want the test for. 1:6000 is really good and I personally would not get the NIPT with that score.
I did actually pay the eye-watering amount for the NIPT because the hospital I’m at messed me about so I wasn’t able to get the combined screening and I wanted to know before the weeks of waiting for the quad test. NIPT came back 1:10,000, which I think might be the limit for the one I had as all conditions came back 1:10,000. Then my Quad test came back 1:5400 (I’m 32) and if I’d have had the quad results before NIPT I probably wouldn’t have spent the money but the wait was too much for me.
Plus 1:6000 is less than 0.02% so pretty good! There’s always going to be someone who is that one so I like to think what does 1:10,000 do for me that 1:6000 doesn’t.