Hi there Haydens Mummy, I am 35 and recently had my NT scan as well, just for my age they gave me a 1 in 270 but then after the bloods and other measurment results it jumped right up to 1 in 5393, This is my third time round not that makes a difference, so I dont go by just that first result wait until you get all the info before you start worrying yourself, I know thats easier said than done. Good luck I hope this helped a bit, try not to worry your self too much.
I hope Ocean Princess sees this and responds - she had this situation with her first baby and ended up with a cvs from memory. Her DD is a perfectly normal 16m old now.
Hi, I was told the risk of miscarriage from a CVS was about 1% and less for an amnio. I was incredibly scared of this as I had just had a miscarriage a few months prior so was very scared to go through that again. I won't sugar coat it as I wanted honest information at the time as well. It was very painful - a big metal pole/needle inserted into my stomach and down into the uterus to get the chorionic villi sampling and then pulled back and forth till the got enough fluid. From memory you can cvs testing from 11.5 weeks till bout 14 weeks and an amnio is after 16. I think I was told if I was going to miscarry from it it would happen within 2 weeks. I had 3 days off work I think. You cramp quite badly after the procedure and are told to rest. It is a HUGE decision to make whether you have further invasive testing that only you and your partner can decide. For us we ummed and arred for weeks (as we found out at 9 weeks so had to wait) but in the end I knew I couldn't last a whole pregnancy mental health wise without knowing what we were up against!
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