opinions please!!!!!

[kwesterdahl1993]

My doctor  keeps asking me if I want to do the quad (genetics) test. He said I only have about a week to do it or I will be to far along.  Neither my boyfriend  or I have any sort of genetic diseases  or anything that run in our family's  but my doctor  still says he offers it to everyone. Has anyone else done it or not? Reasons?  Results? How do they do it? Fmt!!!

[haleygriffith]

I myself denied it at the beginning of my pregnancy but some complications have happened and am more at risk so im doing the maternit21 testing nect week. Which is non invasive and just a blood draw. Ill also be 27 weeks when i do it.

[lindashalee]

I had it done all 3 times. With my first i did get a false positive for spina bifida and yes it was stressful and they scared me really bad before I had the special ultrasound. He came out fine though. I personally feel I would want to know if something was wrong with my baby that way I could prepare myself. I couldn't imagine going to give birth thinking my baby is healthy with no problem and then something be wrong. But that's just me....

[rainbowbb]

I chose not to because the percentage of a false positive missed positive were way higher than I expected and with my luck I'd get a bad reading and nothing be wrong. Or have something wrong and they missed it. I had an ultrasound a couple weeks after the blood draw time frame and a lot of those tests can be seen on u.s. our baby was perfectly healthy. I'm a huge stresser so I didn't even bother with the test

[sgulia1987]

If it's just a blood draw (unless you would have to pay out of pocket) why not. If it was any more invasive then that and you know you would keep the baby anyway I wouldn't dob it then.

[newmama21]

*I myself

[newmama21]

himyself did not have it done, I have seennn friends who have and had false positives for thing and the amount of stress and worry it caused was just not worth it to me, like any mother I will love my children no matter what and can only hope that if anything were to not be normal that god would give me the strength to deal with it and overcome

[kwesterdahl1993]

Ok Thank you!

[dianaexoh]

*prepared

[dianaexoh]

I had the genetics screening done despite the fact that I am low risk and would have kept the baby regardless of what the results were. They draw one vial of blood and that's it. In a lab they extract the fetal cells and can tell you whether or not your child has a slew of genetic disorders.
I got it done for the reason that I am a little Type A and need to be prepare. If my child had something that would result in their death shortly after birth or a lifetime of special care, I wanted to know. Some people don't get it because they don't want to worry themselves when they are low risk, but because I would keep the baby regardless, I wasn't stressed about it.
There's nothing right nor wrong in getting it or not, it's just a personal preference.