Wife 18 weeks pregnant, very high HGC levels - other reasons for it?
29 January 2008, 05:30 PM
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This happened to me 
Went for my 20 week scan and was told I was in the "at risk" category. I was 27 so hardly "old", it was my third pregnancy and my other two children were born without problems (except pre-eclampsia).
Had to go to Kings college in London to have the test done. Pretty invasive really, and that too carries risks! Very painful because the person doing it was a trainee and was about to take a sample of my intestine
Anyhow, the results came through within about 3 days. No sign of Down Syndrome and they confirmed that my third child was a boy! I carried him to 36.1 weeks whereby the high blood pressure obviously made him feel he wanted out!
A healthy baby boy at 5.12Ib, now 9 months old and doing just fine.
My heart felt sympathies go out to those who have to go through it though - the bottom dropped out my world the day of that scan and a million questions ran through me - truth is...... what will be will be and sometimes people opinions will differ from your own with regards to what to do depending on results!
Whilst at King though I met a couple who had been through this 5 times! Each baby was infact healthy - and I guess I never gave it a second thought with earlier scans - you just "assume" its all OK.
Good luck to all those peeps with bumps
Went for my 20 week scan and was told I was in the "at risk" category. I was 27 so hardly "old", it was my third pregnancy and my other two children were born without problems (except pre-eclampsia).
Had to go to Kings college in London to have the test done. Pretty invasive really, and that too carries risks! Very painful because the person doing it was a trainee and was about to take a sample of my intestine
Anyhow, the results came through within about 3 days. No sign of Down Syndrome and they confirmed that my third child was a boy! I carried him to 36.1 weeks whereby the high blood pressure obviously made him feel he wanted out!
A healthy baby boy at 5.12Ib, now 9 months old and doing just fine.
My heart felt sympathies go out to those who have to go through it though - the bottom dropped out my world the day of that scan and a million questions ran through me - truth is...... what will be will be and sometimes people opinions will differ from your own with regards to what to do depending on results!
Whilst at King though I met a couple who had been through this 5 times! Each baby was infact healthy - and I guess I never gave it a second thought with earlier scans - you just "assume" its all OK.
Good luck to all those peeps with bumps
29 January 2008, 06:03 PM
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Glad to hear all seems to be well jay - I worried myself daft all through my wife's pregnancy and delivery and our wee girl is now just over 2 weeks old & she's absolutely fine (and so is the wife).
29 January 2008, 06:33 PM
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some good news allround above
on another note, someone else who is pregnant where my wife works, said to my mrs few weeks that she is at a low risk and her baby is "normal" this is when we were worried, how insensitive can some people be
on another note, someone else who is pregnant where my wife works, said to my mrs few weeks that she is at a low risk and her baby is "normal" this is when we were worried, how insensitive can some people be
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