How many of you opt to have NT scan?

[tattoo_mama]

I was given a risk of 1:2 of 1:6 of Trisomy 18, which I was not expecting at all. I was expecting to have a look at my little baby and that be the end of it.

I had to wait four weeks for an amniocentesis - we would have terminated as we cannot or did not want to look after a DS baby see what Nae Nae said - she hit the nail on the head. After six weeks of stress and mental pain ( with two weeks waiting for amnio results) we were told nothing was wrong at all.

Not sure if ive just read the above wrong or not, but trisomy 18 is edwards syndrome, not DS.
it is a chromosomal abnormality but nothing like DS.
Quote from wikipedia:
The survival rate of Edwards Syndrome is very low. About 95% die in utero. Of liveborn infants, only 50% live to 2 months, and only 5-10% will survive their first year of life.
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this is the kind of situation where i would have to consider termination as (if my math serves me correctly) out of say 1000 trisomy 18 births, only would 5 of these bubbas make it to 1 yr old, and are usually very deformed, unlike children with DS.
just clearing that up

[Evie76]

Yes Tattoo, I left out some words:

1:2 of DS and 1:6 or Trisomy 18 (Edwards). Was diagnosed high risk for both, which my useless Dr simply said is "not viable for life".

My Dr had about as much heart as Snow's!!