@knottie I don't know, but I remember that with the info from the NIPT and the NT ultrasound, they were fairly certain of the diagnosis by the time she was 12 weeks or so.
Was anxious the whole week awaiting the results. Relieved things came back normal & found out my 1st child will be a girl! I’m excited about this but I can tell my husband is sad we’re not having a boy since his brother & cousins all have girls already & his whole side of the family are waiting for a boy. Ugh, patriarchy? But he was very happy the results were normal.
@krnadoptee our family is the opposite, with a ton of boys and everybody wants this baby (our third) to be a girl very badly. Like, excessively. I love my sons and would be over the moon for a third little mama's boy! It's always so irritating when other people push a gender expectation on your kids for whatever lame reason. The family "already having girls/boys" is not a good enough reason.
My MIL was so pushy about our second being a boy (because she only had granddaughters) that I was kind of disappointed that he did end up being a boy so they got what they wanted, a boy “to carry on the family name.” 🙄
@pttomato I know I'm going to end up feeling this way if baby is a girl. DH's grandma drives me nuts talking about how there's "too many boys around here, we need a girl" WE don't need sh*t Lois the baby isn't for you
My maternal blood screening (not NIPT) came back with a slightly elevated risk of down syndrome (1/325 or 0.3% is low risk, mine was 1/278 or 0.4%) so I got an early anatomy scan done yesterday and they said baby looked great (they were moving around lots, I still feel nothing though ha) and measurements didn't indicate any soft markers which reduces the risk by 50% and puts me back at low risk so I opted out of amniocentesis (which would be covered here) and the NIPT (which isn't covered and costs $550CAD).
The tech said baby was very cooperative when she was checking the lower body so she was confident she knew the gender from yesterday's scan but I resisted the urge to find out so we're still Team Green 💚
Re: NIPT RESULTS 💙
Wishing you luck with any tests that lie ahead!
The tech said baby was very cooperative when she was checking the lower body so she was confident she knew the gender from yesterday's scan but I resisted the urge to find out so we're still Team Green 💚