Feisty Fidget
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Hi lovelies 
We were advised that we were high risk for T13 and T18 at our 12 weeks combined screening scan/bloods. Prior to this shock I had never heard of Edwards and Patau syndrome so you can bet we were terrified
After a lot of tears and tantrums we decided to listen to the advice of our midwife and scrape together the £500 needed for a harmony test at the foetal medicine centre in London. We had the test a week ago and were relieved to be told that the scan was looking good, but advised they needed the bloods to confirm we were in fact low risk.
I had a call from them yesterday advising the test had come back as failed, I was offered a partial refund or a re-test. I was warned that the re-test only had a 50% chance of success.
Obviously I feel like we are still in limbo and desperately want an answer to whether we are high risk (as the NHS believes) or low risk (as the in-depth private scan indicated). However, getting re-tested causes all sorts of issues (we are in the west country so it is a high expense going again for a 5 minute blood sample appointment) and I'd also need to take another day off work. Deep down I know our blood test will fail again (if something is going to go wrong, it always does for us!).
Does anyone know if the Nifty test will have a better chance at a positive result? Part of me is wondering if it's worth a partial refund (not available if I have the re-test) and going for the Nifty, or are the tests so similar that the chances of enough DNA material being drawn in my sample are likely to be the same?

We were advised that we were high risk for T13 and T18 at our 12 weeks combined screening scan/bloods. Prior to this shock I had never heard of Edwards and Patau syndrome so you can bet we were terrified

After a lot of tears and tantrums we decided to listen to the advice of our midwife and scrape together the £500 needed for a harmony test at the foetal medicine centre in London. We had the test a week ago and were relieved to be told that the scan was looking good, but advised they needed the bloods to confirm we were in fact low risk.
I had a call from them yesterday advising the test had come back as failed, I was offered a partial refund or a re-test. I was warned that the re-test only had a 50% chance of success.
Obviously I feel like we are still in limbo and desperately want an answer to whether we are high risk (as the NHS believes) or low risk (as the in-depth private scan indicated). However, getting re-tested causes all sorts of issues (we are in the west country so it is a high expense going again for a 5 minute blood sample appointment) and I'd also need to take another day off work. Deep down I know our blood test will fail again (if something is going to go wrong, it always does for us!).
Does anyone know if the Nifty test will have a better chance at a positive result? Part of me is wondering if it's worth a partial refund (not available if I have the re-test) and going for the Nifty, or are the tests so similar that the chances of enough DNA material being drawn in my sample are likely to be the same?