Thanks girls......

Jackie....glad you found it useful.....when you concieve (not if, because I am sure you will!) & if you do need to go for the amnio, please feel free to ask me any more questions.

Debbie, you ask a really good question actually:

Given the value of hindsight, would you have the NT scan again knowing the stress it put you through?
When I was finally pg with Olivia my OB asked me if I wanted the NT scan & explained that if I no intention to act upon a negative result, then there was no point. So when I was pg with her, I chose not to have the NT scan, or the triple test, so the amnio possibility never eventuated. We waited such a long time to concieve her, plus I had had a late miscarriage in an earlier pregnancy, so NOTHING would have made me place any risk on that pregnancy.

My same OB asked me the question again with this pregnancy & for some reason, my gut reaction was different. I don't know why, but I did feel differently about testing this time around. I have questioned this myself at length over the past few weeks, and can't come up with a reason why I felt differently, but most likely just maternal gut plus the fact that I am lso very lucky to be blessed with Olivia who is quite perfect in every way.

It is a very personal choice, and I probably went to have the NT scan with a relatively naive pepspective, ie "Olivia is perfect, there will be no risk with this baby" & of course my triple test results dispoved me of my "smugness" and really forced me and DH to question what we would do if our amnio results were indicative of chromosonal abnormalities. It was a tough time for both of us and caused a lot of tears.

In hindsight, with this good news under my belt, I kind of wish I had avoided the whole business. However, if I am truthful, I am glad I had all the testing because I can now properly enjoy the rest of my pregnancy, & I didn't have that luxury with Olivia.

Not sure if that explains my choices or my thinking? It is a really tough one, that each couple probably should discuss at lenghth before the NT scan is done. Either way, I guess in this day & age we are all lucky, in as much as at least we have the choice. (My Granny, in the late 1930's, gave birth to a baby with Cystic Fibrosis, for example, and he died at only a few weeks old. That type of heartache, these days, maybe can be avoided, through testing?)

(Again, sorry for the long post, but as you can imagine, it is a subject close to my heart at the moment!)