Bad Nuchal Translucency results...high risk.

[wannabamommy]

Hi everyone. I just came back from my IPS testing to look for any chromasomal abnormalities like Down's syndrome, spina bifida, and trisomy 18. The baby's NT measured 4.1mm. Which is high and puts me at an increased risk for having a baby with down's, trisomy 18, or heart defect. So now I need to get more testing done...possibly amnio or cvs. Normal NT is less than 3mm. I'm soo worried, I can't stop crying and thinking the worst. Like what did I do wrong? I'm really scared about the results. I want nothing more than a healthy baby. Just can't believe this is happening to me. Anyone else have a high NT measurement and have a normal healthy baby. I'm worried b/c I'm still very young to be having such a high result. I also had blood drawn today to check for the proteins...don't know when I'll get the results....hopefully tomorrow. The wait is killing me.

[wannabamommy]

Glad to hear everything came back ok. Those are great numbers. Why does your doctor want to check again? I say leave it alone. Why put yourselves through that again?? Wasn't once enough? Your baby is healthy and your odds are excellent. Go enjoy your prengancy and don't worry about more testing. Doctors these days just don't know when to leave well enough alone. This testing is something new so they don't really have it down to a science yet and it seems to me the false positives are so much higher than they were orignally planned to be.

[bataan_Mom]

I am 41 years old, 14 wks pregant on my second baby. I had my NT when i was 13 weeks. The u/s guy said everything is ok and he gave printed me a complimentary picture of my baby. After the following day my family doc called me and asking me to come down to his clinic immediately and he wanted to read my NT results. I came down the following day. My doctor read the result and said that my NT results was good. But the guy who took my NT said that since my age is 41 he advice that i should consult a genital conselour. I can sense that they wanted to tell me that something wrong with my baby. Then i went to google abt this bad NT results and i came across this forum. I thank God I am release. with so many people who shared there experience about NT and DS.

yesterday we saw a genital counselor and she offered us an amnio test. she explained to me that base on the NT result everything was fine. Since my age is 41, i have 2% risk to have ds baby. and base on the NT result i was lower down to .5%. but still she said that is not accurate and Amnio is accurate.

my husband and I refuse amnio test, why? its because i can feel to myself that my baby is ok. and if my baby will have problem we will not terminate my little one in my tummy. its because we believe that God gave this to us and He is the giver of life. so no matter what happen we will take care of our baby. so why do i have to go Amnio. they will get some cell from my baby? and taking amnio test has a 1/200 of chances of miscarriage. and it will hurt my little one. never mind for amnio test.

the genital counselor told me that amnio will help us to see if everything is ok. and this will keep us not to worry and get ready for the future. again never mind, i am ready for what will happen to my baby.

my due date is aug 4. i will come back in forum and i will update you about my little one.

[raghu684]

thanks for your comment on this. we had received the blood test results ,which came out to be normal and ratio given 1:1460 (not sure what that fiure mean). now we're bit happy and relaxed and always pray for our little to be healthy. doc suggested us to go through an other NT scan in next two weeks (current week is 11) just make sure everthing's fine.
ia,m glad that i found this thread which is very informative and interactive as well. thanks to " wannabamommy" . thanks a lot

[wannabamommy]

Ooops make that 4yrs ago. Wow time flies.

[wannabamommy]

I was the person who orginally posted this thread 3yrs ago. I wanted to let you know I now have 2 healthy boys. I had just turned 25 when I was going through this nightmare. Let your wife know that the odds for a healthy baby are in her favor. The 50% risk makes no sense at all. I would ask for the research behind this. I am a nurse myself and believe me I researched this alot and kept getting the same outcome. False positives are incredibly high. The NT scan by itself is basically useless, you need to combine it with the two seperate blood screenings to get a final result. It's like taking have of an exam and not finishing the rest and accepting that as your final score. Wait till you get everything back. Alone my scan said I had a "positive" screen as my son's measurement was 4.1. After all the bloodwork came back I was in the clear.....by quite a long shot too. I should mention they found things wrong in other scans down the road and I still had a perfectly healthy baby boy. Just know that in future pregnancies you don't have to do the IPS testing. I opted out of it for my second son as the stress ruined my pregnancy. I only had 2 u/s the whole pregnancy and had a midwife this time instead of an OB (they love the #'s game) and had a stress free amazing pregnancy and birth resulting in another happy, healthy baby. We will have a third in a couple years and again I will forgo the IPS testing. Good luck and remember the odds of a healthy baby are in your favor.

[raghu684]

hi , my wife got 3.8mm in NT scan . she is 23 yrs old and our doctor has suggested to go through some tests(blood test ,triple marker ) possible DS. they mentioned that NT scan confirms 50% that the baby will be abnormal and think about termninating the pregnancy. we are so scared . please advise