Is it possible my baby has Down Syndrome?

[Anonymous]

When you give birth at a hospital you have a midwife/OB for you and pediatrician for the baby. They are both there when the baby is born. A midwife for mom and a doc for baby. You then have pediatrician appointments weekly. I recommend bringing your baby in right away for a checkup.

[Anonymous]

This seems off. I also had a midwife and had to get my newborn to a pediatrician within a week of her birth.

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I'm so glad to hear that you saw the pediatrician and everything is normal.

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Anonymous wrote:What does your pediatrician say?

We haven’t had a visit with our Peditrician yet. We have one scheduled in a few weeks. Our midwife is highly trained and experienced and has provided our postnatal care so far.

What?! Your baby is 4 weeks and hasn't seen the ped?

This is within the scope of practice for CNM's.

No, no. A highly trained and experienced CNM will require a newborn to see a pediatrician or even a pediatric nurse practitioner within two weeks of birth. Most to many within 3-5 days. She has a PP mother showing concerning symptoms a month after delivery. This isn't good.

Technically the first 28 days are within the scope of practice for a CNM, and only to the extent things progress normally.

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Glad to see the update, OP!

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My baby really looked like she had FAS at birth. It was so strange. She looks completely normal now, but I freaked out for a long time. (I'd drank about 2 glasses of wine 2 weeks after conception at Thanksgiving and DCUM had all these stories of babies who got FAS from small amounts of alcohol). Her nose had this crease under it that looked like a koala and I pointed it out to the ped. I'm sure she thought I was crazy, but she looked into it and answered nicely. She knew I had 2 older children and never ever took them to the ped for minor issues (or ever really).

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Anonymous wrote:What does your pediatrician say?

We haven’t had a visit with our Peditrician yet. We have one scheduled in a few weeks. Our midwife is highly trained and experienced and has provided our postnatal care so far.

What?! Your baby is 4 weeks and hasn't seen the ped?

This is within the scope of practice for CNM's.

No, no. A highly trained and experienced CNM will require a newborn to see a pediatrician or even a pediatric nurse practitioner within two weeks of birth. Most to many within 3-5 days. She has a PP mother showing concerning symptoms a month after delivery. This isn't good.

Technically the first 28 days are within the scope of practice for a CNM, and only to the extent things progress normally.

Things weren't progressing normally. OP did the right thing because her PPA wasn't being addressed. This is what gives CNM a bad name.

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Anonymous wrote:What does your pediatrician say?

We haven’t had a visit with our Peditrician yet. We have one scheduled in a few weeks. Our midwife is highly trained and experienced and has provided our postnatal care so far.

Oh my god, you sound nuts. Are you also anti-vax? Get your child to a REAL doctor ASAP.

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Anonymous wrote:What does your pediatrician say?

We haven’t had a visit with our Peditrician yet. We have one scheduled in a few weeks. Our midwife is highly trained and experienced and has provided our postnatal care so far.

What?! Your baby is 4 weeks and hasn't seen the ped?

This is within the scope of practice for CNM's.

I had a baby with a midwife, and the attending pediatrician saw my baby in the hospital and scheduled a visit for us the next day. What OP is talking about is not normal.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes it’s possible. NIPT is not 100% and it is possible to get diagnosed at birth.

I would get to a pediatrician ASAP as they will be able to assess and order genetic testing to confirm.

Can I just request a blood test? She had a heal prick at birth that checked for PKU, cystic fibrosis and a few others but not DS. Our other children had more extensive labs drawn at their 6 week peditrician appointment but not sure if they test for Down syndrome specifically.

Would I need to request that directly?

That blood test/here prick test should have been done w/n 24 hrs Op!!

I CAnt believe your midwife didn't tell you to do that sooner (or at least get your baby to an actual pediatrician).

You can't wait on that. I'm betting there might be something on that blood panel your baby is positive for (metabolism deficiency is my guess).

- Signed Mom whose newborn came back positive for one of the metabolic tests/heel prick and so grateful it was discovered right away.

We did have a healprick at birth. This does not test for Down syndrome.

I am not neglecting my child. I was seeing a medical professional.

I had an appointment this morning and baby is fine. Just had different features than her siblings. I am going to be treated for PPA.

Thanks

Glad you're getting help.

[Anonymous]

You need to take your baby to the pediatrician! Normally well checks occur right after birth, 2 weeks and 2 months, 4 months etc. I hope you are at least doing weight checks with the midwife.

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Anonymous wrote:What does your pediatrician say?

We haven’t had a visit with our Peditrician yet. We have one scheduled in a few weeks. Our midwife is highly trained and experienced and has provided our postnatal care so far.

Oh my god, you sound nuts. Are you also anti-vax? Get your child to a REAL doctor ASAP.

Nope. All three kids got vitamin k shot at birth and my two oldest are up to date on vaccines.

Having midwife care postpartum is normal in my state. I went to the Peditrician once I had a concern.

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Anonymous wrote:What does your pediatrician say?

We haven’t had a visit with our Peditrician yet. We have one scheduled in a few weeks. Our midwife is highly trained and experienced and has provided our postnatal care so far.

Oh my god, you sound nuts. Are you also anti-vax? Get your child to a REAL doctor ASAP.

Nope. All three kids got vitamin k shot at birth and my two oldest are up to date on vaccines.

Having midwife care postpartum is normal in my state. I went to the Peditrician once I had a concern.

NP here. OP for future reference, midwife care for baby is not normal or typical. In any US state. I delivered with CNMs and having a pediatrician to follow up with immediately was required.

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Anonymous wrote:What does your pediatrician say?

We haven’t had a visit with our Peditrician yet. We have one scheduled in a few weeks. Our midwife is highly trained and experienced and has provided our postnatal care so far.

What?! Your baby is 4 weeks and hasn't seen the ped?

This is within the scope of practice for CNM's.

I had a baby with a midwife, and the attending pediatrician saw my baby in the hospital and scheduled a visit for us the next day. What OP is talking about is not normal.

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I've had 2 deliveries with CNMs in a hospital setting. Midwives cared for me, pediatrician cared for my DDs. With both deliveries, our first appointment with the pediatrician was withing 5 days of birth. What OP described is not the norm for CNMs. Not even close.

[Anonymous]

OP, so glad your baby is healthy and your needs are being tended to as well. Be kind to yourself; a newborn + older kids is hard. We mothers always find something to worry about. You’re a good mama and I hope you have some help so you can spend a little time just enjoying your new little one.