EmmaLouise
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Hi all,
It seems whenever I post its about a worry - hopefully these will ease very soon!
My midwife came round today with triple test results...
We have a 1 in 199 chance of downs syndrome. I don't consider it to be dramatically bad as we have a daughter with heart defects and know the risk of a heart defect normally is 1 in 100 so I wasn't overly concerned with 1 in 199. I was expecting her to say we had a 1 in 10 chance or something like that. However, it is something else to think about.
The thing is these results may be wrong as the lab didn't have babies measurements when they did the bloods and there is a little comment at the bottom of the lab report saying so (which midwives can't have read), and saying these results need re-interpreting when gestation is confirmed. This also made me feel better as I know they went on my due dates of 15.4 weeks when the scan I had showed I am actually 1-2 weeks earlier than that, so that could have screwed the results too.
So anyway, I have an appointment tomorrow with the consultant to chat through the results and to arrange an amnio if I wanted (and although I think this a very individual choice I certainly don't want one with its miscarriage risk!!). But I will go to the appointment and see what they say. The midwife said to mention to them about re-doing this test as they don't normally do it until 16 weeks and I was possibly only 13-14 (will get definate due date at next scan on Sep 6th).
Has anyone else experience of a high risk result and what did you do after it???
Thankyou
Emma
It seems whenever I post its about a worry - hopefully these will ease very soon!
My midwife came round today with triple test results...
We have a 1 in 199 chance of downs syndrome. I don't consider it to be dramatically bad as we have a daughter with heart defects and know the risk of a heart defect normally is 1 in 100 so I wasn't overly concerned with 1 in 199. I was expecting her to say we had a 1 in 10 chance or something like that. However, it is something else to think about.
The thing is these results may be wrong as the lab didn't have babies measurements when they did the bloods and there is a little comment at the bottom of the lab report saying so (which midwives can't have read), and saying these results need re-interpreting when gestation is confirmed. This also made me feel better as I know they went on my due dates of 15.4 weeks when the scan I had showed I am actually 1-2 weeks earlier than that, so that could have screwed the results too.
So anyway, I have an appointment tomorrow with the consultant to chat through the results and to arrange an amnio if I wanted (and although I think this a very individual choice I certainly don't want one with its miscarriage risk!!). But I will go to the appointment and see what they say. The midwife said to mention to them about re-doing this test as they don't normally do it until 16 weeks and I was possibly only 13-14 (will get definate due date at next scan on Sep 6th).
Has anyone else experience of a high risk result and what did you do after it???
Thankyou
Emma