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purplejacket4 ( member #34262) posted at 11:17 PM on Wednesday, November 6th, 2013
I offer prenatal testing to my patients. If I were an older patient I would get the testing in order to be prepared. If I were young I'd skip it as a false positive is more likely. Troubled pregnancies usually miscarry and other things (like Downs) will be seen at the 20 week ultrasound.
Me: BS 50
Her: FWS 53 (both family med MDs; together 23 years)
OW: who cares (PhD)
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DragnHeart (original poster member #32122) posted at 11:51 PM on Wednesday, November 6th, 2013
Our hospital is able to handle anything and I feel very confident in having my next child there. They took very good care of dd and DS (even though he wasn't in the NICU).
I talked with wh and again he says he jut doesn't want to do the testing.
I went for three pages of prenatal blood work yesterday.
If wh X-ray wasn't a bowel blockage than what could it have been. Thats what worries me. The doc isn't concerned. Wh might be but he isn't telling me. Doc said that the prostate jut might lower his flow of urine. So far his flow is fine but why would that be enlarged at his age?
I am worried. Always have. The weightless especially. He has been more active and eating healthy. He also was overweight so he's down to where he should be. It's if he loses more that the doc will be worried. I make sure he gets weighed weekly. I also make sure he takes his B12. He is still very tired but he isn't gettig a restful sleep and I have asked him to take a sleeping aid but he won't. I just want to know he is ok so he is here to meet this child. That's why I cried all Saturday. Thinking that he might not get that chance.
Me: BS 46 WH: 37 (BrokenHeart911)Four little dragons. Met 2006. Married 2008. Dday of LTPA with co worker October 19th 2010. Knew about EA with ow1 before that. Now up to PA #5. Serial fucking Cheater.
BrokenRoad ( member #15334) posted at 1:42 AM on Thursday, November 7th, 2013
The question I have is about doing the integrated prenatal screening. This tests for Down Syndrome, Trisomy 18 and/or open neural tube defect. With dd we found out I was pregnant to late to do the testing and with DS we chose not to. I'll be 37 this month. Wh doesn't want to do the screening because he says it won't change anything. So what do you think about this screening? Has anyone done it?
I've had a screening done when I was 37 and having DS(6). I too, would not have changed anything, but the way I figure it, I'd want to know, to prepare myself for it if my child did have Down's syndrome. I'd have a whole lot of reading to do and go look for a support group so that I had others who had been through it to help me out.
I've since learned a bit about it, and I can say with certainty I'd need some help.
Hope this helps.
BR
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