From reading your post it seems like you were quite happy not to have the test until you spoke to your old doctor and her advice has unsettled you a little.
I'm 38 and my results were similar to yours. My ob basically said that my chances of having a miscarriage from the amnio were higher than my chances of having a baby with DS so I made my decision against the amnio on that basis.
When we read all the statistics of women over 35 having a much higher chance of having babies with abnormalities, it's easy to think it's somehow inevitable.
Another way of looking at it is - if you were infact 23 (which your results are comparable to) would you have the amnio?
As many other posters have suggested, I think it depends on what you would do if the result was positive. Again, there's no real way of knowing that in advance but I think most of us tend towards one option or another.
As another poster has also said, another option could be to find out when you can have another ultrasound. It's generally around 19 weeks. My obstetrician told me that most abnormalities will also have physical indications eg. hole in the heart etc. etc. so your next scan could provide more information without having an amnio. Please check that though and in terms of timing, that may then be too late if you were to consider a termination.
I did find it difficult to make the amnio or not decision but once I had, I found that I didn't dwell on it anywhere near as much as I thought I would. I just found other things to worry about!
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