High risk for trisomy 18 - Edwards' syndrome

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Hi. My consultant called this afternoon to say my blood screening result (at 19+5, done 2 weeks ago) had come back with a very high risk for trisomy 18 - 1 in 42.

Risk for Downs was less than 1 in 8000, v v low, abnormally so, for my age - 35. I'm booked for a detailed scan on Thursday, and I know there won't be any definite answers til then at the earliest (41 in 42 chance of everything being ok), but I'm just freaking out a bit.

If anyone has any experience of this, I'd be so grateful to hear from them.

Is the Downs risk so low because my baby definitely does have Edwards'? There didn't appear to be any soft markers on the scan I had at 19 weeks - heart all looked absolutely fine, and the sonographer said everything else was 'lovely.' Would something have shown up then for a baby with Edwards'? At least one thing? Having had a look through a lot of info on the net (fast reader!) it seems 90% would have a heart defect; and also high incidence of other disorders. I keep looking at my scan pics, but of course I can't see anything.

Hi, I don't have any personal experience that I can share but didn't want to just scroll past your post. Hopefully, based on the laws of probability, this baby is going to be absolutely fine but i can imagine that it will be such a worry until you have those results. I've got my fingers crossed for you 🤞💐

Bless you. Thankyou for reading my post. Some days are positive and some days are negative, today was a bad day with over worrying. Really do hope will all be fine. X

Alh14 we lost a baby postnatally (heart defect) and have just been through the ups and downs of a new pregnancy resulting in a healthy baby girl. It wasn't easy, every scan\test was horrible but worth it in the end. I had a supportive midwife and all the medical professionals I met were also good. I found it helped to mention what had happened up as soon as possible in medical appointments to avoid awkward conversations later. As far as I know the chances of having a second Edward pregnancies are very very very low and the odds are in your favour.

I will say this is a zombie thread and you might get more support if you start a new one. The problem with resurrecting an old one is that folks might start replying to the original post and miss yours