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IPS Testing
What are your thoughts on it? I don?t know if I should bother doing it? I read that it?s a test normally for ?older? women but my GF did it and she was 30 during her PG.
I know it tells us the chances of our baby being born with Down Syndrome or Neural Tube defects like Spina Bifida.
When I spoke with DH last night he asked me:
DH - ?What would you do if the result came back positive??
ME - ?Nothing?my baby is my baby, I wouldn?t abort it! I?ll learn how to deal with it no matter how hard it is.?
DH - ?So why worry about it now??
I just not well informed about the test and if I should take it or not.
TIA!
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Re: IPS Testing
For me it's not about deciding whether or not to proceed with the pregnancy based on the results. It's about knowing about any issues or potential problems, so I can be prepared and my drs can treat me accordingly.
I wouldn't say it's a test for older women. I think the majority of women do get it done, if only for another chance to see the baby.
Mom, why are you washing my feed in the sink?!
I chose not to do the testing for a few reasons. 1 - There are so many cases of false positives, 2 - it really wouldn't change the outcome of the pg (although I see the poing on getting prepared for post birth, I never thought of that before) 3 - we're both young, have good family histories, and the results I found are not conclusive enough (for my liking), the margin is so big that it might stress me out unnecessarily, and then if I chose the Amnio the risks associated with that just to calm my nerves... I thought it was easier to deal with things as they come and if they come.
I'm naturally I have found a worse case scenario person when it comes to the pregnancy, if the results came back even 1 in 5000 that something could be wrong, I would have struggled with that and probably caused more harm than good on my health and the baby's.
I agree with this. I did the IPS screening because I wanted to know one way or another. I'd want to be prepared if something was not right, I would not want to find out at birth.
I'm 39 years old and didn't have it done with either of my pg's. We were going to do the inital testing while I was pg with DD but the lab messed up my test so we never bothered to go any further with it. Since there is no history of any severe genetic problems on either of our sides, my Dr felt that it would not be necessary. She also mentioned that a lot of major birht defects are caught on the 20 week U/S so decisions could be made at that time. My RE told me that the recommendations for testing have changed over the last couple of years b/c so many women in their 30's are having babies now. 40 years old is the new age for required testing.
Also, after researching the tests, I found that there is an extremely high false positive result with a lot of the preliminary testing. The more invasive testing (2nd trimester) also comes with risks( possible infection or miscarriage).
In the end, I'm glad that we didn't go through with our testing b/c if the result had come back positive, we still wouldn't have aborted and I would have been worried throughout the rest of the pg, even though the test result may have been wrong all along.