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Having an intense day
Well, started out this morning with some light bleeding and a blood clot. Called OBGYN and was told to go to Labor and Delivery at the hospital. GREAT. Well thank goodness everything looked good. Baby doing well and was sent home. After I got home OBGYN called to say my second set of blood work came back with an elevated risk for Downs Syndrome. I have to make an appointment with a perinatalogist for a Level Two ultrasound. Needless to say I am a mess. I know it is only an elevated risk not a definate. But still..... I called to make an appointment but of course the office is closed for the day. The wait till this ultrasound is going to be killer. Anyone have experience with this? I am 33. I know it doesn't matter what age you are but I am not 40+.
After 2 years TTC with mild endo and an elevated FSH. We were successful with our second IUI after Lap surgery. Our daughter born 12/2009. Currently trying for #2. IUI#1-miscarriage, IUI #2-BFN, IUI #3- BFP
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Re: Having an intense day
How elevated was your risk? I suspect the u/s is being done out of an abundance of caution.
FWIW, the majority of DS kids are born to moms under 30 - largely because they are the ones having the most babies - but statistically a 33 year old has a 0.4% chance whereas a 40 year old has a 1.5% chance. Not a huge increase, and still very rare no matter the age.
(((hugs)))
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I had a 1:40 risk for DS after my NT scan b/c of my bloodwork. I was also 39 y.o. at the time which contributed to my elevated risk.
We declined the CVS and decided to wait for our 20 week scan before deciding whether or not to do an amnio. We ended up not having any soft markers and the baby's heart and kidneys looked normal so we declined the amnio as well. Waiting it out was really hard and if I were to do it over again, I would probably do the amnio. It would have saved me a lot of worrying and if it had come back positive for DS, I could have been more prepared. (DD was born without DS.)
1:40 sounded terrifying when I first got the results, but if you think of it as a 97.5% chance that the baby does NOT have DS, you can see that the risk is very low.
good luck!