Pos. Quad and scared

Brzezink · March 2013

My doctor called today and told me that based on my quad screening I have a 1 in 240 chance of having a baby with Down syndrome. I made an appointment for a detailed anatomy u/s not sure the exact type, but can't go for over a week since I am out of town. I did not have a chance to ask a lot of questions and I won't be able to contact my doctor till Monday. Has anyone experienced a similar scare or does anyone know what the reasons for a false positive are? The mayo clinic lists a few like a due date miscalculation or having twins but I am pretty sure those are not the case for me. Any thoughts or insights are greatly appreciated!

CelticWife · March 2013

I am sorry you are scared!

Quad screens do not have positive results. Instead, they give you the odds of.having a baby with a defect.

1 in 240 is very low. That is a 00.4 percent risk that baby has the issue. It means you hav

katiebenes · March 2013

CelticWife:
I am sorry you are scared! Quad screens do not have positive results. Instead, they give you the odds of.havin

Brzezink · March 2013

My Dr did call it positive, so does the Mayo clinic. I know that this only means that my levels are outside the normal range for a 28 year old, but I am still nervous. My other results were all 1 in 5,000 and then this one came back so much lower. Realis

carrotcake06 · March 2013

I know that it's called "positive", but that's so so misleading.

Like PP said, there is a 99.96 percent chance your baby doesn't have DS. While I'm definitely all for getting as much information as possible, the odds are in your favor.

AppleMuffins · March 2013

sorry you have to go through this stress, but as others have said your odds are still good that baby is fine, especially if other tests are fine. I'm not a medical expert so I can't say for sure why it came back high, but you do need to keep in mind that

coastalchristina · March 2013

Also posted on our birth month:

1 in 240 odds is still very low.

We had a 1 in 47 chance of having a baby with Downs based on the Quad which has doubled to 1 in 23.5 based on 2 soft markers at the level 2 ultrasound. Which is stil

cookie2279 · March 2013

Ugh, so sorry. This is why I hate these tests. The give either a false sense of worry or a false sense of security. Why on earth is a 99.96 % chance baby is fine considered a positive quad screen?

I would just keep remind

Southerndancinmama · March 2013

CelticWife:
I am sorry you are scared!

Quad screens do not have positive results. Instead, they give you the odds of.

kendra223 · March 2013

I was 24 with my first and had a 1 in 208 chance. My doctor called it "positive" before even telling me the numbers which made me think for a few seconds that DD had downs! They did the indepth ultrasound and there were no soft markers. So the "risk" went

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