amniocentesis

[cinders101]

hi Ive just been told my baby stands a 1 in 5 chance of having Downs Syndrome , myself and my husband are undecided whether to have an amnio or not!Was wondering what anyones thoughts are on it or have they experienced the same . many thanks x

 

[tweety pie]

We said that if my results came back high risk then we would have the amno rather than the cvs as the m/c risk is slightly less.
It all depends on what you would do if you found out your baby had downs, if it did'nt make any difference to you either way then i would leave any testing to save further risk. It's only you that can decide your next step.
GL hun xx.

 

[ZoeZo]

Hello hunni, I'm so sorry your results have come out so high, maybe Violinem's thread may help you decide? That is still 80% chance of a healthy baby x
https://www.babyandbump.com/gestational-complications/829778-1-5-chance-downs-cvs-not.html

I've heard that miscarriage is rare, for piece of mind maybe you should have it? Hard decision to make I know.

In a way I hate these screenings, all 'risk factors' and statistics which a lot of time cause us unnecessary worry, sending positive vibes x

 

[Havmercy]

hi Ive just been told my baby stands a 1 in 5 chance of having Downs Syndrome , myself and my husband are undecided whether to have an amnio or not!Was wondering what anyones thoughts are on it or have they experienced the same . many thanks x

We were told we had a 1:4000 chance of trisomies and 1:16 chance of downs. I'm honest enough to say I don't want a downs baby. My husband says he would want to continue the pregnancy. We are having an amnio done this friday. I'm hoping with every fiber of my being that our test come back normal. I have read mixed reviews about the nuchal scan with serum test. Some say it's not very accurate. I hate I had it done at all. The doctor said the baby measured fine on the ultrasound, but my PAPP-A, HCG, and age (38 years old) are giving me at risk results. I have high HCG and low PAPP-A.

 

[erikab922]

We also had a 1:5 chance of baby having Downs, we would up having amniocentesis at 16 weeks which went perfectly well and the test came back normal. I think if you know for sure you would keep the baby if s/he had Downs, then no point in having the test. We were undecided but if we did find out the baby had Downs then it would have affected a lot of future decisions so was important for us to know.

I will say, having gone through it I think the tests are far more worrying than they need to be.

 

[lilmamatoW]

I had a 1 in 22 chance for DS and chose not to have the amnio as we would not have terminated. Ultimately, our level II ultrasound at 20 weeks showed that there were no anomalies or soft markers. It is a very personal decision, but having had a MC last year, I couldn't bear the thought of terminating and I couldn't bear the thought of doing something to cause a MC. Which screen did you 1 in 5 chance come from? If it was a quad screen, please take some comfort that that test has a notoriously high false positive rate.

One more thing--with my first child, the quad screen returned a 1 in 10 chance for DS and I am happy to report that my firstborn does not have DS and is a healthy, growing 2.5 year old. It's hard to pass the quad screen if you're 35 or older...in case you happen to be that age. But a change in due date a couple days this way or that also makes a huge difference on this test too.

 

[xxClaire_24xx]

hi im not over 35 (im 26) but seen the title and i had an amnio

My bloods came back saying in was 1 in 5 for chance of down syndrome and we thought what will be will be then at my 20 week scan ellie was only measuring 14 weeks and i have very little fluid so we got referred to a fetal monitoring unit in Glasgow

they said the reason she was so small could be 4 things

1. edwards or pataus syndrome
2. edwards syndrome
3, i had a viral infection and passed it on
4. my placenta wasnt working properly

so they recommended we had an amnio and the look on their face was serious so we asked if it could be done there and then and they said yes told us the risks and how it would be done etc, we only done it so we knew what we were facing as edwards and pataus syndrome are serious, we would never terminate

so you go in lie on the bed and they are scanning you at all times they spray something on your tummy to clean and numb it and then thats it in goes he needle, i never looked but peter said it was huge i took a deep breath when it went in and forgot to breath so almost fainted lol then they took some fluid and thats it done

waited 2 weeks and all the chromosomes came back clear and we found out we were having a girl, so we knew it was maybe a viral i had passed on or placenta problem and after another week the bloods for the viral came back so it was a placenta problem

so to cut a long story short we had weekly scans then from week 25 a scan on a mon wed and fri til they decided to deliver ellie at 33 weeks

hope your ok and all is well xx

 

[xxClaire_24xx]

we also had the amnio as the doctors wanted to know what they were dealing with as edwards syndrome the baby would only survive mins to a year and have severe disabilities and patuas would be ellie would have died in the womb or at birth so yeah we just needed to know xx