I guess I’m just looking for some reassurance! I am currently 28 weeks and since we went for our 20week scan we were told our baby has dilated kidneys and this is a soft marker for Down’s syndrome so we decided to do the NIPT (suggested to us by the midwife) privately which came back low risk (less than 10,000 or less than 0.01% risk) for all 3 trisomies.
We have since been for two consultant scans with the same dr and last week the dr said ‘have we spoken about the risk of Down’s syndrome’ I mentioned we had already spoken about this and had a low risk NIPT result. He then said it is accurate but obviously you have the 1% so you could do amniocentesis. I asked if there’s any other markers and he said no but also said with downs the scans often look fine.
I understand they have to be neutral but it felt very negative and we were not very reassured. He didn’t mention anything about what happens following the birth or what else could be causing the kidney dilation. They are 15mm and 7mm currently. Which is classed as moderate and mild.
We came away from the scan feeling like we’d gone back to square one and was there any point of us having NIPT if they were going to suggest having an amniocentesis anyway.
His assistant then sat with us to speak about the associated risks with having an amino and and an early labour.
I guess I’m just wondering if anyone’s been in this situation? Did you decide to have an amnio? Do you trust NIPT?