Sucky day yesterday, and need somewhere to vent.
My wife is pregnant with our second child, and we went for the first scan (turns out she's 11 weeks 4 days). Everything looked fine, then we were told the nuchal translucency (NT) measured at 6.4mm (they look for less than 3.5mm) which is indicative of a higher risk of Downs, Edwards and some other syndromes...especially given my wife is 39 and at a higher risk simply due to age.
This news was obviously not what we were hoping for, and we were taken into a quiet room and someone came along and told us our options.
We're going for a CVS test in London Tuesday (essentially, they take a sample from the placenta and count chromosomes to test for syndromes). It's invasive and has 1/100 chance of miscarriage, but we'd rather know so we can make informed decisions.
If the tests from that come back all clear, then we still have to have more scans as the larger NT reading is also indicative of a higher risk of heart defects and that will need to be monitored through the pregnancy.
There we were hoping to come away with a nice pic of the foetus (we did but...I can't look at it at the moment) and good news for everyone, and then this.
I know it boils down to "there's an anomaly we need to check out that might turn out to be nothing", but you just can't help thinking about the "something".
Trying to keep busy... You know what he said? Ah need 'bout tree-fiddy.
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