My down syndrome blood results back...bit worried!

[butterfly80]

Hi I got my results through the post today and if I am honest it has freaked me out about, I am 30 and so know the chances are higher of having a child with Down Syndrome but it said I am low risk but its 1 in 750, surely this number is really low?? I have been trying to read up online and people my age are getting results in their thousands!!!! Has anyone else had similar?
xx

 

[cherrypie556]

Did you have the Nucal fold scan too? The blood test is only about 40% accurate and has many false 'high risks' The nucal scan and blood test combined is about 90% accurate but still has false high risks. There is a 749 chance that baby is fine!
xx

 

[butterfly80]

Hi yes sorry its the test from both, the nuchal fold was 1. I just thought/hoped the number would be bigger I think! x

 

[emily86]

I think thats a fine rseult hun, don't look at it as 1 in 750 but 749 to 1 thats your baby is just fine.

Also - i have declined this test, as after research i'm not even sure how accurate it really is with its 'estimates'.

 

[mummy2lola]

Hey Hun,I've freaked myself out researching aswell,everyone was saying I:49000 but mine came back 1:994 and I'm 26.I'm not happy with that but my friend was 1:5 and baby was perfect xx

 

[Kitten]

Try not to worry, did you get the booklet about it? It said even if you go through to the next 2 rounds of testing and both come back positive, the odds still are that your baby won't have Down's. Mine was 1 in 34000 which I think is worse than the first pregnancy but they didn't do blood tests then so it was purely on the fluid in the fold.

 

[Renee71]

1:750 is low risk. There is a link to a table below that gives you the risk of Downs depending on the age of the mum.

https://www.library.nhs.uk/geneticconditions/viewresource.aspx?resID=88948

I'm going to 40 when my baby is due, so my risk before going for the test is around 1:100.

 

[butterfly80]

Thank you for replying, I seem only to be happy when I am worrying. I have talked to Bean and told him/her I love him lots and just to stick in there x

 

[Blue12]

If you figure 1 in 750 as a percentage, it is 99.86% that the baby will be fine.

 

[loopyluan]

Hi I got my results through the post today and if I am honest it has freaked me out about, I am 30 and so know the chances are higher of having a child with Down Syndrome but it said I am low risk but its 1 in 750, surely this number is really low?? I have been trying to read up online and people my age are getting results in their thousands!!!! Has anyone else had similar?
xx

Hi Butterfly 80

Dont worry too much! I am 30 too, I just had a private Nuchal Scan and tests done earlier this week (I did create a post on it). I came back as 1:17892!! With fluid measuing 1.4.

I hope this puts your mind at rest a bit!

 

[Yazz_n_bump]

I'm 19, the fluid measured at 3.5mm and I got 1 in 700... sometimes it can be out or wrong.

It's just a test and no tests are EVER spot on.

 

[butterfly80]

I think I am just having one of those emotional days x