Is anyone else planning to have a CVS?

zyas · December 2011

I'm considering this but wondering if anyone has had one done before.

kgmoon · December 2011

I thought about it until I researched it a little more. They have can be inaccurate as much as accurate and carry a risk of miscarriage. I think it would just make me worry more if I had it done.

caralck · December 2011

They are usually very accurate and give you an ultimate answer regarding the child's chromosomal count. If you have a specific genetic defect you're looking for, not sure if they can look for that or not. The risks are there and so unless the screen is concerning, we're skipping it as well as amnio.

peeper72 · December 2011

We will be doing CVS. The procedure comes with minimal risk in the hands of the facility we use and I am willing to accept that risk. The test is quite accurate since you end up with the karyotype of your child.

We did CVS with DD as well as sending part of the sample to Baylor COM for microarray, fragile X, and a couple of other things that I can't remember specifically. I am older - nearly 40 now so we're very concerned about genetic anomalies. DH and I have enough background in science and medicine to really need as much information as possible and definitive answers if they are available.

KM121309 · December 2011

We aren't. H and I are young and healthy, we have no reason to think we will have a child with a disorder. If we do, I don't think it would change anything anyways, so I am not comfortable raising any m/c risks.

ladymk · December 2011

Maybe.....probably if there are any concerns after the NT scan.

amerifrau · December 2011

Am I the only one who had to google "CVS" to figure out what this thread was about?

72012mk · December 2011

We decided against it. I think it would just cause a lot of unneeded stress.

pinkcallalily · December 2011

We did it with my last pregnancy because we learned at the NT scan that she wouldn't survive much longer and we wanted to get some answers if we could. I'm glad we did it because we learned she had Down Syndrome due to a translocation so my husband and I were able to get tested to make sure we weren't carriers. I'm also just glad we have an answer to why she was so sick.

We hope we don't need to do it this time. My peri has recommended it for any future pregnancies, but I will only do it if the baby has severe health problems like our daughter did. We still didn't terminate and had to wait several heartbreaking weeks until her heart stopped, but it gave us the answers we were looking for. I know the miscarriage risk is low, but I'm not willing to take that risk unless I have a very good reason to. Last time we knew our daughter wouldn't survive more than a few more weeks due to the hydrops they saw at the NT scan so we were willing to risk a miscarriage.

ETA: We were also considered very low risk due to our age and family history, but it still happened. We didn't even do the NT scan with our son and initially refused it for our daughter as well, but were talked into it.

KissyFishyLips · December 2011

We're considering it. I had one with DD because of terrible results at the NT scan for her twin (who didn't make it). We did the CVS to find out if the problem was chromosomal (b/c then both twins, being identical, would have had issues even though DD looked fine).

It was painful - they tried to go in vaginally but my cervix was "stubborn" and wouldn't let them navigate the needles. So they had to do it abdominally and gave me no numbing. It wasn't awful, but it wasn't comfortable. My reward for the pain was knowing that DD was 100% healthy and finding out the sex, with no doubt, at 13 weeks :-)

Even though it carries a small risk, we are leaning toward doing it again this time just for the peace of mind.

sarahandeddiejune212008 · December 2011

We will do the N/T scan because it is non invasive. We will only do a cvs or amnio if it shows that our lo may have something wrong.

JanieMD · December 2011

Sticking with NT scan and blood work only for now.

My BFF is and OBGYN and she specifically told me NOT to have a CVS if my other tests come back OK. I'm 25, perfectly healthy and this is my first pregnancy so there is no reason to be concerned at this point. She also told me that having a CVS or amnio can increase the risk of miscarriage not only for the current pregnancy, but also for future ones...

This is all very personal and there's so many different factors to weigh in before making a decision. If I was 40 and my NT scan results weren't so conclusive, I think I would go for it though...

jayangel · December 2011

We've decided against it. We feel it will just give me another thing to worry and stress over.

worldispurple · December 2011

We're choosing to skip it. We have no family history of genetic disorders, and we're both fairly young. So we feel that we don't have much to worry about.

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