Usually on sonogramsthey measure the thickness of the skin on the neck and based on that they will recommend an amnicentesis. However Amniocenteses are risky for the baby, and painful for the mother. So it is a difficult decision to know whether to have one or not.
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Roland E O'Dorant R Tape loading error, 0:1,
Fri 10 Feb 2006, 17:02,
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Something about...fluid on the kidneys, and something about the cartoid artery. Something like a 1:200-300 chance of something going wrong, and they said the odds were about the same. Don't know what i'd have done if it came back with him having Downs.
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Foxglove -- it all ends in tears anyway...,
Fri 10 Feb 2006, 17:04,
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We made a decision (both times) before the tests.We thought that the possibility might sway us and so we sat down and decided, based on the situation, what we would do, should the tests say we had spacker spawn, so that we wouldn't have to make the decision when we had bad news to worry about.
As it happens we decided on both occassions that we would look after it, whatever, but that was a decision and is not, necessarily, what we would have chosen at other times.
Thankfully they're just shits and not too deficient physically.
(As it happens we decided on both occassions that we would look after it, whatever, but that was a decision and is not, necessarily, what we would have chosen at other times.
Thankfully they're just shits and not too deficient physically.
Lord Manley of Ven www.justgiving.com/manley - please?,
Fri 10 Feb 2006, 17:10,
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