Less than 12 weeks pregnant club! Part 3

pigpen

I didn't have screening with any of my others but I thought it was best to have it this time given I am old and crusty and I have the other children and their needs to consider. My results came about 5 minutes ago 1 : 2300 which is fine but I am fully aware there is that 1 in there that may yet be a surprise.

I also decided I would want to know firstly so I could decide whether or not to continue, second so services could be in place for when baby arrived so stuff like cardiology referrals etc could be organised straight away and finally because my other children would need to be prepared for the arrival of someone they might one day end up taking responsibility for.

ncsmummy

Does anyone else here suffer with anxiety/panic attacks? I used to suffer badly but not had one for months. The last few days I have felt really anxious and panicky. Is it the hormones do you think?
I am sitting here on my own getting more and more anxious - maybe I am going crazy!

amus

an9i77 wrote: »

Hi Abi - good to see you back here again, I think it is your turn to be lucky this time. I'm 11weeks today - the first few weeks crawled but the last few have flown. I've had a fair few private scans to put my mind at ease - expensive but better than worrying. Besides I found somewhere that does them for £45 which is pretty good, so that's kind of eased the cost a bit as a lot of places are around the £100 mark.

I'm really undecided on whether to have the nuchal scan, what do people think ? (of the test, I know no one can make my mind up for me) For my age group there is a 1/300 chance of downs which is pretty low really, but 1/30 women have a positive nuchal test which means a 90% false positive rate if my maths is right?

I didn't have one with DS and he was fine.

I'm thinking I'll just chance it. We chance lots of things in life , usually because there's no other alternative, and the vast vast majority are ok.

Besides apparantly 15% of downs babies are not picked up by the test anyway.

I think it might just be really stressful if I got a false positive, and then had to have the test than can cause mc, plus all the waiting and worrying etc.

Interested if other people have decided what to do.

It depends really if the result would make a difference to your choices. Personally for me if it did come back high risk I would have an amnio and take it from there so I have opted to have it.

Im not sure about your area but in mine they dont look at the nuchal scan results in isolation, they do a quad test with bloods so look at a number of factors combined to give a result.

Of course as pigpen said the risk could be less than 1 in 10000 but that means nontheless there will still be one so its not perfect, but it gives you an idea.

Kitten_Pie

We have had it each time and will decide what to do if and when the results come back. I think it is more a heads up so we can plan things although as people have said someone has to be that 1

MoneySavingMamma

Hi Abis! Glad to see you over here too! My tlp & bfp was Mon 11th!
I couldn't wait the extra day for digi, so just held it in for hours then digi that afternoon!
I'm due Nov 18th x

mrsj28

Abis - fab to see you on here, and best wishes for this one being a super sticky

Lemon and Kitten - so pleased your scans went well

LilyMay - :j for rising HCG levels and hope all goes well at the scan on Monday

TTC40 - glad the holiday is going ok and nobody has sussed the not drinking yet! I found my belly expanded rapidly between about 6 and 9 weeks, but it was just bloating! The proper bump arrived after about 10/11 weeks I think

And big hello :wave: to others I know from ttc thread!

lilymay1

Abis, great to see you here. Feel quite pleased to have got a BFP at the same time as you Fingers crossed you get an early scan, but if you have to go private I would suggest fudging your dates a little bit as nowhere near me will scan until you are past 7 weeks. It's only the hospital who do it from 6.

I think I'm 5+1 today. Yay

Luciferswench

Congrats to all the new faces and sending uber sicky bean vibes
11+5 today been to the hospital to book in my bloods all came back as they should though not quite sure how i managed to have normal iron levels though.
Managed to end up with Midwife led care woohoo so i dont have to traipse back and forth to hospital all the time just local clinic.
Next apt on the 9th of april with the midwife.

BeNiceToMySelf

big hugs ncsmummy

so good to see you on here abis, wishing you an extra sticky bean

AFM feeling a bit meh today, you gotta have ups, downs and inbetween days I guess

sali84

Hi all, how's everyone doing?

Can anyone recommend a good pregnancy book? I've had a quick look online but there are so many I'm not sure where to start!

Got my meeting with the midwife on 2nd April to do my pregnancy notes before my booking appointment and scan on the 10th. I'm assuming they'll take blood at the booking appointment rather than on the home visit?

Hope everyone is well