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[sunnydays123]

im glad i have joined this forum..... i am 14 weeks pregnant and found out at my 12 week scan that bub has a nt of 5mm which when i was told was totally deverstated and cried every tear i had i think.. i have been put in a high risk for downs, trisomy 18 and 13.... i have seen so many positive stories on here which i love... i go back for another scan at 16 weeks to check for other soft markes on bub.. i am preying that my lil one is all ok... has any one else had a high Nt and bub been great.....

 

[Jmommy]

im glad i have joined this forum..... i am 14 weeks pregnant and found out at my 12 week scan that bub has a nt of 5mm which when i was told was totally deverstated and cried every tear i had i think.. i have been put in a high risk for downs, trisomy 18 and 13.... i have seen so many positive stories on here which i love... i go back for another scan at 16 weeks to check for other soft markes on bub.. i am preying that my lil one is all ok... has any one else had a high Nt and bub been great.....

I just wanted to say that I hope the best for you and your LO. I know how it feels to cry like that. We had no idea our son had DS til he came out and the doctor told us he had certain characteristics. Two days later it was confirmed. Now its been over 10 months and some days are harder than others but I dont cry anymore. He is truly wonderful! (And Healthy)

I really hope that your LO is typical and something not so scary is causing the high NT. but if you wanted to ask anything about DS or my pregnancy with a baby with DS Feel Free!!

GL to you!

 

[akwingnut]

Hi WantaGirlNow, Since you posted that you were 37 weeks at the beginning of April how did your delivery turn out? Thanks in advance

-AkWingnut

 

[chattyB]

I'm going through the same thing at the moment - NT measurement of 3.5. Baby looks ok, nasal bone present, long bones normal and heart looks ok. I'm going on for a CVS next Friday at 13w2d. Praying that my baby is ok

 

[Viperbunny]

sunnydays123, have you gotten any other results in? I lost my little girl to trisomy 18, and I know how scary it is to go through all the possibilities. They though she was just small, there was only one artery in the umbilical cord, and she had a cyst on her brain at 20 weeks that was gone by 26 weeks, but that is a soft marker. Still, my doctors didn't suspect anything else wrong until she was born at 29 weeks 1 day with birth defects on her hands and feet. We found out later that week she also had 3 heart defects. They didn't see any of these things on ultrasound. She was perfect to us and we had 6 days with her. We didn't find out it was trisomy 18 for sure until the last day of her life.

I know it is scary, but there is more of a chance that your baby is okay than there is something wrong. I am pregnant wit baby number 2, got pregnant 6 months after we lost our daughter, and so far, all the test have been great. We were given a 1 in 100,000 risk of trisomy 18 at our NT, also, low risk of downs.

I hope and pray everything is good with you and your baby. If you ever need to talk about results, or need information, or anything, I'm around.

 

[mhs416]

I just wanted to thank everyone for the encouragement during what proved to be a very challenging time for my family. I was ever so grateful to have support through this blog. For all the future moms out there that get discouraged through testing.. stay positive and don't let the negative take over. I know that is easier said than done, but do it for your baby; do it for yourself!!

 

[Physiomom]

Hi mhs416,
Can I ask what the outcome was for you? I am currently waiting...my odds are 1:17. We are waiting until the birth to find out. It's hard to be patient.

 

[maxalias]

Im so sorry you are going through this hard time, I recently did the same. I had a risk of 1;15 downs, 1;330 trisomy13 and 1;1200 trisomy 18, I was that 1 in 1200, We had our wee girl at just before 18 weeks with edwards syndrome, She had died because of her condition and there was no hope for her. I had a nt reading of 10.6mm, It was huge, Fetal hydrops and nothing looked good. I had u/s showing smaller for dates baby the whole way and it was terrifying. You just never know what is going to happen because I was high risk of downs and it didnt happen, I really hope your wee bubby is fine x

 

[maxalias]

sorry to hear of your bubby with trisomy 18 too, we lost our wee girl on the 1st of september with the same trisomy, it is devastating, I hope you are doing ok x