NIPT Low Fetal Fraction Twice

***Update!***🙂

After talking with the specialist, we were offered the option to use a different company for the non invasive testing because we weren’t interested in the amniocentesis. It was called a Unity blood test. I am now 20 weeks 5 days and just got the results back today and the baby is LOW RISK for everything and definitely a GIRL 🎀 🥰 I have been so stressed this entire pregnancy and I can’t even believe I finally got some good news. I hope this brings hope to others going through something similar. ❤️

Hi. Any input would be appreciated ☹️ I’m currently 15 weeks 5 days (due November 18th). I’m going to be 40 in September. I have 3 kids and in the past year had 3 miscarriages. We were not planning on trying again but we did end up pregnant again. I’ve been cautiously optimistic because of the previous miscarriages. Early on everything seemed to be going normally except there was a point my HCG wasn’t quite doubling, but it was close. Every ultrasound so far has turned out good and I saw the baby bouncing around and it had a 160 heart rate.

So I got the NIPT test done and unfortunately it came back with a 1/17 high risk chance of trisomy 13/18. This was due to a low fetal fraction. I was pretty crushed. So after that, my doctor referred me to a specialist. They said it wasn’t an adequate result and try not to worry because of my weight, etc, sometimes you can get a false positive. So that gave me a little hope. I’m also taking baby aspirin, which I read could possibly be a factor, but I have no idea. I’ve read quite a few stories on here and other sites where people have gotten this and everything turned out ok. I’ve also read that even though it says the NIPT tests are very accurate for detecting things, there are a lot of people who have gotten false positives. So I got the test done again (just one week after the first test) and finally got my second results back…and it’s the same. Not enough fetal DNA. I now have to wait for two weeks until I can get an ultrasound with the specialist and hopefully he will rule everything out.

I’m trying not to think about it because my anxiety is just taking over. I haven’t even told my kids because we were waiting until we heard everything is ok. Waiting has got to be the hardest part. Does anyone have any experience with this? Did your baby end up being ok? I know it can go either way, but just hoping for some useful information. Thank you! ❤️