Genetic Testing Help?!

Question

Did you get the testing done around 9/10weeks? Do you feel it helped your stress power or did it raise it? 
We have lost so many babies and are nervous. We want to do the test to help, but also don’t know if it will. 
We still don’t have an answer as to why we keep loosing our babies. 
TIA!

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We did the tests and I’m thankful we did. They told us the gender and that he was low risk for Down syndrome and other syndromes. If we hadn’t had the test we would be thinking we were having a girl. Our ultrasound tech could not see a penis on the ultrasound even though the blood test said he was a boy. We were sent to a high risk doctor because of the issues and they determined that he had more than likely had a hypospadius which will have to be corrected by surgery after he’s born. It was nice to be able to prepare for these things as early as possible and not finding out in the hospital that our child (which the tech thought was a girl) actually ended up being a boy who will need corrective surgery.

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Because of a downs diagnosis with my left pregnancy my doctor advised that we do the testing. Downs syndrome pregnancies can be finicky and I want to give any baby we conceive in the future the best chance possible to make it all the way to the end.

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Eased my mind. Learned I’m a carrier for CF. Husband got tested, he isn’t. Plus they paid extra attention on my 20 week growth scan because the MfM knew what to look for.

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I will because I have a balanced translocation and we will need to see if baby is BT or UBT. Not sure if I will get a CVS or amnio yet as I haven’t gotten pregnant in 12 months TTC.

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I did it. We wanted to be able to prepare and educate ourselves if there was a possibility of any issues. We also got to find out the gender. I have no regrets about doing the test and I highly recommend it

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We didn't. The tests tell what your baby has an increased likelihood of having and with my medical conditions we already knew our chances of a variety of problems was higher than average. Just as above, we weren't stressed out by our choice and have no regrets.

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