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Private scans/NIPT

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Khanga27 · 05/07/2023 15:02

Hi there

I am 35 years old and currently 5 weeks pregnant. I have my midwife appointment next week (it was moved forward a week due to my midwife no longer being available on the original scheduled week), and we have decided to have an 8 week scan.

However I wondered whether anyone had experience of whether a private NIPT test was also worth doing? The one I have found locally is £400 including a scan and can be done from 10 weeks. I think the test would give me earlier information that the NHS route, but I'm conscious however that I'm perhaps being overly cautious by having 2 scans before my NHS scan?

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ai38 · 06/07/2023 15:53

I am 38 and opted in to do NIPT privately at 11 week. I did Panorama test which gives more accurate result rates (lower false positives) and lower chances of no results compared to Harmony test. With Panorama, you even have the option of checking for sex chromosome abnormalities and a few other conditions (available on extended panel option which for us costed an extra 150). The scan I did along with the blood test was very thorough and done by a fatal medicine specialist. It was way better quality and longer than the 12 week scan at NHS. If you are in London check London pregnancy clinic in Shoreditch. That's where I did NIPT and the result came back in exactly 1 week although for Panorama it had to be sent to the US for processing.

Overall, I am very happy that we went for the test. I wouldn't have done it any other way,

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