Told high risk for downs, carrying twins

[Caezzybe]

Like Midori1999 I too have a little boy with Down's Syndrome (7 months old) who I absolutely adore and brings light and laughter to my life. I also had low odds for my age (1 in 560 at age 41). From the huge amount of research on the internet I have done (including keeping an eye on false positives and false negatives on here), it seems that false positives (a high risk result that isn't a Down's Syndrome pregnancy) are far more common than true positives. Your chances of having one child with a chromosome problem are lower than your chances of there being a problem. Your chances of BOTH babies having Down's Syndrome as a random occurrence must be very low indeed. Here's to a positive outcome for you xxx

 

[knitbit]

I am 8 weeks with a twin pregnancy. I had no idea that the blood serum was unreliable, but it makes sense.

Just try to relax until your amnio. I'm sure everything is fine.

 

[Luzelle]

Hope the results of your amnio are okay. Thinking of you and the little ones.

 

[waiting_on_#3]

Hope that your amnio went as well as can be expected. Just wanted to share another positive story, but I am 29 (28 when I had the bloods done) our NHS don't offer the NT scan at all, but my bloods came back with a 1:7 chance baby had downs, age wise my risk should have been 1:1000, I went ahead with the amnio and all came back clear , I am now eagerly awaiting her arrival (8 flipping days late so far!) but the worry up to and just after the amnio is horrendous, so hope you are taking it easy and you get the preliminaries quickly. x