Hi

I am totally confused with this damn report. Why dont they ever explain things in normal words.

I had the u/s and the guy doing it said that everything looked fine, in good nick so I pretty much wasnt worried, then he said that we should go outside and wait for the results to come through for this combined test. Fine, well, after waiting for about 30 minutes, I decided to save time and book in my 18w u/s appt and the receptionist says, 'why dont we do this after you have seen him?' That rang alarm bells, and I insisted that she book me in anyway as DH needs to take time off work to attend. She wasnt too happy.

According to this report, anatomical detail seems normal. CRL is 6cm and NT is 1.8mm. I had done some reading on the NT scan previously and according to everything that I have read, anything under 2.5mm is okay.

So we eventually talk to this Dr and he tells me that my Trisomy 21 risk is 1:79 and Trisomy 18 is 1:28600. He proceeded to tell me that it means that 78 out of 79 women will have a normal baby. But that I should discuss the results with my OB, I have an appt on Monday morning.

He did mention the options of amnio or cvs, both of which have a high risk of m/c, especially with my history. I have done a heap of research and think that he would have been able to tell something with the size of arms and legs or something, so I am taking it to mean that I am okay.

I am totally confused as I am on progesterone pessaries and oestrogen patches, maybe this has affected the blood results. I just dont understand.