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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m pretty rich and I don’t know anyone who got an amnio unless something came up on the earlier tests. Extra scans? Sure! But amnio has serious risks. [/quote]

Wealth doesn't matter. If you're over 35 or have a problematic genetic history, amnio is recommended as a matter of course.[/quote]

Is this based on personal experience? I had my first at 37 and the doctor was very much of the opinion that it was up to me. There are less invasive tests with less definitive results, most people do those first and will only do amnio if something comes up, because amnio carries a risk of miscarriage. It's as high as 1 in 100 amnios result in miscarriage -- that's extremely high! So I did not get one after earlier tests were clear (and with no history of genetic abnormalities and no flags raised on my early ultrasounds).

However, I do think wealth plays a role. There is a difference between "pretty rich" and Shiv Roy. We're talking about the richest people in the world. As I mentioned earlier, Shiv is not just going to a regular OB. She's going to doctors who only service the ultra rich, probably do a lot via house call, likely sign NDAs before working with them, etc. Shiv can afford to pay for the doctor whose done 3000 amnios and never had a bad result, so if she wants to get an amnio and be assured of the most limited risk possible, she can. She's not a Big Law attorney, she's a billionaire.

These people are not like us, any of us. And that extends to healthcare, pregnancy, risk assessment, etc. They make decisions differently than we do.[/quote]

DP.  Good grief, could you possibly stop fixating on the amnio?  Plenty of women, including me, have had multiple amnios.  It's a test that is regularly done, especially if the mother is 35+.  Move on![/quote]

I'm the PP and I'm not fixating on the amnio, I'm responding to someone who asserted getting an amnio was a "matter of course" for a woman over 35, and also that money is irrelevant. I disagreed.

If anything, I'm in the same camp as you because my whole point is that Shiv getting an amnio is not necessarily evidence that she's over 35 (I don't think she is based on Kendall's age) or that she had some huge risk/concern with the pregnancy, or that she was using it to ascertain paternity. I think it's just likely that someone in Shiv's position would get all the tests because she can, does not have to worry about insurance covering it, and because it's culturally common in her tax bracket to just do all the things.[/quote]

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