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[quote=Anonymous]I am November Interloper #2. I'm the one that posted a long time ago after Poppy or Peanut (sorry I can't remember) was talking about how adorable their LO was during the NT ultrasound. I had not really thought about how our baby would look like a real baby by that point and it was so fun to think about. We had our NT scan on Thursday. I had done the bloodwork a week before so we did the ultrasound and then met with Dr. Nies (this was at Antenatal Testing Center at Inova Fairfax). Ultrasound was awesome. No soft markers. Bloodwork was terrible - consistent with Down Syndrome. 1:65 odds. My age risk would be something like 1:350 so this was tough news. Dr. Nies was great, explained everything and all of the different testing options we could choose or not choose, if we wanted. Like many of you, we never really expected the results to come back with bad news! But I don't know why I was looking for some kind of assurance when before this I never had any worry over chromosomal abnormalities. We went to GIVF on Friday to meet with a genetic counselor and ultimately decided to do a CVS. We just wanted the certainty of a diagnostic result and to be able to prepare if we got news of DS without "hoping" which I had a lot of guilt about. Also, if we had done Verify, they would have wanted us to do CVS or Amnio to confirm a positive and I just wanted to be done with it. But since CVS is obviously invasive and has a risk, it was a really tough decision. Dr. Stern did the CVS and he honestly could not have been better. I had some soreness at the needle site on Friday afternoon andlaid around all weekend and felt fine. We got the FISH results on Monday and everything came back normal. After such a stressful weekend, I will definitely think a lot harder about this kind of testing in the future. Especially given the high instances of false positive - or elevated risk or whatever - it was really a maddening experience. Just wanted to share this. I love reading all of your posts, especially since you all are a few weeks ahead of me. It's like a little window into what I can expect and I love the advice!

- November Interloper #2, aka Turkey[/quote]

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