Worried Dad here. My wife and I had the 1st trimester screening at 12 weeks and found out our risk for a baby with DS was about 1/100. The NT was perfect, as was the hcg level.but the PAPP-A was very low. She is only 27 and I know these tests can have a lot of false positives.but that doesn't stop me from being worried sick every day. We are expecting TWINS, and I've heard the test is even less reliable with multiples. Anyway, as I try and talk myself into feeling better, I was hoping some of you might have some words of encouragement or maybe a similar experience? Thanks everyone!
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I had an ultrasound at 9 weeks to find out my due date and during the ultrsound they told me i had a chance of having a downs baby.I went to a spealist and he gave me a more intense ultrasound and he said my chances of having a downs baby was 90%.I then went and had a c.v.s. Done at about 12 weeks and it came back the baby is fine, i also went for a level 2 ultrsound at 18 weeks and they said the baby looks wonderful.I dont believe in those blood test, most of the time they are wrong.They put husband and wife through a lot of unnecasary stress. My wife was 16 weeks pregnant with our fourth child when the doctor called and had 'bad news.' We were told that the triple scan indicated that our son had a neural tube defect and that my wife should have an amnio to see for sure.
She had the amnio and our son died 5 days later from an infection. She went through 2 horrible days of induced labor only to have a c-section to deliver our stillborn son. The icing on the cake was the day we came home from the hospital to find the results of the amnio waiting in the mail- he was PERFECT!Three years later, she is 31 weeks pregnant with another boy and we decided not to have the scan done this time. We wouldn't terminate the pregnancy even if the scan indicated a problem, so we thought why put ourselves and our family through that again. It almost cost us our marriage!My advice: Give it to God!
He is the only way for you to have true peace. First off I want to say - don't worry about the blood tests. They are inaccurate way more often then they are accurate.
The only thing I think they're good for is making the parents worry about something they shouldn't. We had the blood test with our son. It said there could be a problem. I worried my whole pregnancy and he was fine.
With my daughter, we chose not to do the screening and all ultrasounds showed she was fine and she was born with Down Syndrome. That being said, I just wanted to say, don't worry. Yes, there can be complication and yes, you could have a baby with Down Syndrome BUT they're you BABY FIRST. The complications come second.If we could go back and change my daughter's DNA, we wouldn't. She's been the best thing to happen to our family.I just want to add - there aren't Down Syndrome Babies.
There are baby's who have Down Syndrome.All the best. I hope all works our for you. I promised myself I would post on this site after my baby was born, and here I go. I took the triple screen when I was pregnant. About a week later I received a call from a nurse who very coldly informed me that my blood test showed I had a 1 in 67 chance of my baby having down syndrome.
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She had no other information for me other than I would be scheduled for an appointment with a genetic counselor and an anmnio if I decided to. After bawling my eyes out, I scoured the internet and came upon this site and learned a lot about the triple and quad screen tests and I also learned that the odds of 1 in 67 that I was given were VERY high for my age (I am 27). We opted out of the amnio and the meeting with the genetic counselor as well. We decided that what was meant to be would be and we would love our baby no matter what the circumstances were. After months of worry about the health of our baby, on Feb. 21st I gave birth to a perfectly healthy baby girl.
Don't give up hope! Down Syndrome (formerly called mongolism), named after Dr. Langdon Down, who described these children in 1866, occurs in one out of seven hundred births. The chance of having a Down Syndrome baby increases with the age of the mother.Women under age 23—1 in 2,000 birthsWomen at age 30—1 in 1,300 birthsWomen at age 35—1 in 400 birthsWomen at age 40—1 in 90 birthsWomen at age 45—1 in 32 birthsWomen at age 50—1 in 8 birthsDepending on how they are presented, these figures can be scary. If a doctor says to a mother, 'At age thirty-five you have five times the chance of having a Down Syndrome baby than you did at age twenty,' that would scare many senior mothers from conceiving. Here's how I present the risk factors to my patients who ask.
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At age twenty you had a 99.95 percent chance of not delivering a baby with Down syndrome; at age thirty-five your chances of not delivering a baby with Down Syndrome are 99.75 percent. Doesn't that figure sound more reassuring.
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