Quote: | My Quad Screen showed an increased risk of Downs when I was pg with my first. I'd gone back & forth over and over about whether to have the blood test and ultimately decided to heed everyone's advice and just do it. But the moment I got the dreaded call I wished I hadn't.
My risk was about 1:100 for Downs. I had to wait a week before I could get in for the level ii u/s and it was the longest week of my life. Everyday I cried and worried. At the u/s the dr didn't find any "soft markers" or signs of Down Syndrome, aside from some white spots on the baby's heart. The dr told us the spots are a very poor indicator of Downs and can also be indicative of a normal healthy baby without heart problems. But because they were there, he couldn't change our odds.
We thought long & hard about whether to do an amnio. Knowing that the amnio carried risks and that we wouldn't terminate the pregnancy either way, plus reading between the lines of what the dr was telling us, we decided it wasn't necessary. After all, we had at least a 99% chance the baby wouldn't have Downs and the dr all but told us he thought the baby was fine. DS was born at 40w 5d perfectly healthy in every way.
In the months following our u/s I often thought about the quad screen and the fact that it just flags when there *might* be an issue for a couple of problems... But what about all the other things that could go wrong - vision or hearing issues, mental retardation, organ defects, etc. Some of these things won't show up on any test or u/s and we'll have to deal with them when the baby is born. So why stress ourselves testing for a couple of things that we can't change anyway? Needless to say I didn't do the quad screen this time around. I'm happier to rely on the u/s for any major concerns and trust that whatever will be will be.
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I totally agree with what you said. What about all the other things that could be wrong? I think about it daily. It kind of lets me know I did the right thing by not getting the test done. Otherwise, I might have way more to worry about. Most things you just won't know until the time of birth anyway.
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