Down syndrome?-Kind of long, sorry.

Question

The blood test they did for spina bfida and other chromosomal abnormalities such as Down syndrome, trisomy 13 & trisomy 18 came back today and every thing came back as low risk. But the 20 week growth sonogram they did today came back as thicker than normal on the back of the babies neck which is a sign of Down syndrome. So they took more blood and did some other test that's 98% accurate in detecting Down syndrome and I get the results in a few weeks. Anyone have low risk on the screening test and had the babies neck thicker than normal and didn't have Down syndrome? I'd love this baby no matter what but I'm scared 😔

Answer

My daughter has a cystic hygroma , I had the test done and got low risk but haven't been back in for a follow up ultrasound yet, I've had two friends who were told after their clearance neck thickening could be a sign of a heart problem, one is in the clear, perfectly healthy baby, the other is still waiting for the heart test. Prayers 🙏🏻

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My mom was told the same thing, turns out my sister just had a big head :) try not to worry!

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I got told that if they couldn't do the scan view at the 12 week scan, it got more and more inaccurate as the weeks went on (on a scan) and I couldn't have it done at the 20 week scan I had to have the bloods instead, and also that the bloods are more accurate!

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There's been plenty of cases where women would get that test done and their baby would come out 100% fine. Don't worry yourself too much.

Down syndrome?-Kind of long, sorry.

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