Hi ladies, I'm going to share what I believe is an experience that might be helpful to some of you ladies out there considering non-invasive prenatal testing. A little background on myself, my husband and I have been married for almost seven years. I had my first child (son) at the age of 32 and am currently 31 weeks pregnant with my second child (daughter). During my second pregnancy I concieved at the age of 34 and I'm now 35 and just because of my age I'm automatically considered a "high-risk" pregnancy. During this pregnancy my doctor offered NIPT testing (this wasn't available during my first pregnancy). I thought to myself how wonderful, I could find out the gender at only 9 weeks. During my first pregnancy we found out at 12 weeks we were having a boy. My son was flaunting it all lol. I never considered that I would get a call two weeks later saying that I had a failed result due to low fetal DNA in my blood. I asked the doctor what that meant and she reassured me that either we tested a little earlier or the lab made a mistake handling my sample, which rendered it useless. So my doctor offered to redo the test, I  agreed. Again two weeks later I get a call but instead of my doctor it was a genetic counselor at the hospital. She once again stated that my blood did not have enough fetal DNA so I got another "no result" on the NIPT. She discussed with me the very real possibility of my baby being born with numerous different disabilities, she just listed all the possibilities and recommended an amniocentesis to get definitive answers. I was crushed. I went from being a happy expecting mommy to considering my unborn child's mortality. My husband and I agreed on getting an amniocentesis. It was a very hard decision but we needed to know if our child would survive. How IRONIC that from the NIPT (non-invasive prenatal testing) we went to an amniocentesis (very invasive prenatal testing). We ended up finding out that our baby was perfectly healthy and that it was a girl. None of the doctors or genetic experts could answer my question as to why the test didn't work for me. The generic answer I got was, "it doesn't work on 2-5% of women. We don't know why, we still need more research." I was praying to God and thanking my lucky stars that my baby girl was healthy. However, I never ever planned on getting an amniocentesis. I was upset and felt coerced into getting a procedure that wouldn't have even crossed my mind. So for all you ladies out there thinking about getting the NIPT, hope this helps shed some light on a test that is still in many respects in its elemental phase. Thanks for reading, good luck on your journey.