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October 2017 Mamas!
Oct 2 - MRSVDV (#3), CHANZI (#3), SUGARBEE (#2)
Oct 10 - MRSDECEMBER (#2)
Oct 12 - LBEE (#2) , COLEYCAM (#1)
Oct 13 - FANCYGEM (#2)
Oct 18 - SYNCHRONICITY (#1), BARREMOMMY (#2)
Oct 19 - AZJAX (#2)
Oct 22 - MRS. DUKES (#2)
Oct 23 - CHRISTI70 (#2)
Oct 25 - MRS.THINMINT (#2)
mid October - JJ88 (#1 - twins!)
Appointments
Mar 30 - AZJAX
Apr 7 - MRS.THINMINT - NIPT, AZJAX - NT scan
Apr 10 - SYNCHRONICITY, COLEYCAM - NT scans
Apr 27 - COLEYCAM
Apr 29 - MRSDECEMBER
Apr 30 - BARREMOMMY - NIPT
comment if you have any updates!

@azjax: My OB office is connected to the blood work place, which in my state is the leading chain of who does it, so I'm not even sure where else I would go outside of there. (It's literally downstairs.) I just had a traumatic experience as a child and it's haunted me ever since. I know I have to suck it up eventually though!

@Synchronicity: Hi! We are such a quiet group, haha. I am still naseous even with the Diclegis but I think the nausea may be tapering at least a little. Excited and nervous for the NT scan on Friday. Also, I've been trying to feel early movement (haha) but so far I'm pretty sure it's just been digestive gurgling.

@Synchronicity: Today I'm 11+5 and the scan will be on 12+1. Are you going to find out the gender of your baby or will you be team green? We're toying with the idea of being team green since this will likely be our last.

I feel pretty good (outside of being exhausted and feeling the round ligament pains). I noticed the line nigra and my bump is growing. I felt a few flutters, but not much. I start the 2nd trimester in a few days!

Had our NT scan today and it went well! We could see arms, legs, feet, the spinal cord, kidneys, the heart, and the two hemispheres of the brain. Baby doesn't have trisomy 13 or 18 and is low risk for Down's syndrome. It was an awesome feeling! The Dr. thinks this baby is probably a ....girl !!! Well see if that changes in the coming weeks, haha!

@Synchronicity: oh no!!! DH gets migraines and they are so debilitating even with meds!!! I hope you're able to relax after work and the headache eases off. Do baths or essential oils or anything help?

@Synchronicity: what an adorable profile!

@coleycam: I hope you managed to get through your bloodwork! How did the NT scan go? Hope you're well!

@coleycam: I'm glad the bloodwork wasn't bad. A good phlebotomist can really work magic!

Anybody else with upcoming appointments? I really hope my OB will have me schedule the anatomy scan after my appointment at the end of the month.

We are planning on telling our families about baby #2 over Easter weekend. I've ordered a "big brother" t-shirt for DS from Carter's and I'm hoping it gets here in time! Their shipping is so slow. Seriously I feel like they give the packages to drunk donkeys pointed in the opposite direction of the destination instead of putting them on a truck. They are cheap and cute though!

Anybody else announcing soon? We won't do anything on social media.

Hi,
My midwife told me that I will not have to drink the disgusting juice when I do my glucose test. I'm so excited about that. I lost weight, so I will have to focus on eating more. Other than that the baby is fine. We will find out the gender around 18 weeks.

I got a call from the MFM on Friday, and now that they have my bloodwork back, my risk for DS is 1/43! For my age group, normal is 1/250. My HCG was 2.5 times the MoM, which is what raised my risk since the NT measurement and nasal bone were good. I went Friday for a NIPT blood draw, but I feel very worried. They told me that about 75% of the positives they see from the NT screen are false positives. However, with the NIPT, about 20% of positives are also false, so it's only really helpful if it comes back negative. Otherwise they will recommend an amniocentesis. It takes two weeks to get the NIPT results back, so it seems I have half a month of worrying to endure.

We've decided to hold off on sharing our pregnancy with our families until the anatomy scan. By then we will have NIPT and amnio results back (if we get one) and a much better idea about the health of the pregnancy.

What a let down.

@azjax: Try searching I *think* the March boards, I think that Lovelyplum went through this with the flag being high HCG. Her NIPT came back completely perfect. I know how stressful this is, though. Try to focus on that there is a ~ 98% chance your baby is perfect. What NIPT test did you do? I did VisibiliT (the sister of Materniti21) and it was back in 5 calendar days. Hopefully you will have answers soon! I was also just with a friend who went through this (and is in the profession) and she said that the anatomy is usually more indicative than other potential red flags like high hcg and low Papp-A. She specifically said usually when she sees this it ends up being a perfectly healthy girl pregnancy - I thought it was random and asked why girl and she said that high hcg is often found with girls (which is where the old wive's tale that nausea means girl comes from because high hcg is connected to nausea pretty strongly). Sorry for the novel!

@Synchronicity: I've been meaning to wall you - I'm no nub theory expert but I feel like I see a boy nub. I want you to poll the general public though!

I've been following along, just having some anxiety and not much to offer as I patiently (ha) wait for my anatomy scan. I didn't have a 12 week scan (just NIPT) so I have a lot of anxiety about th baby's anatomy having a huge problem.

@LBee: I've got a better nub shot image I'll have to post when I'm back at my computer!

@LBee: thank you for the information! In my head I know the most likely scenario is a false positive, and when they took the blood spots I was wondering if HCG would come back high because I am feeling so nauseous. It's really hard for things to be beyond my control, and before I can feel the baby move I wonder "is somebody still in there??".

@FancyGem: yay for not having to drink that sugar stuff! I had a hard time getting it down and then not throwing it back up.

It's boy#2 for me!!

@LBee: they sent me form the Qnatal from Quest diagnostics, which is the Panorama test from Natera. I did a bunch of math to try to feel better about everything but I am still dreading facing a TFMR if the outcome is not good.

For anyone that is interested or looks back on this in the future:
1. Age-adjusted risk is 1/250. That means for 100,00 pregnancies in my category, 400 will be T21 and 99,600 will not.
2. NT tests capture 80% of T21, with a 5% false positives. For my category, that means that 320 T22 pregnancies per 100,000 will screen positive (.8*400) and 4,980 healthy pregnancies will falsely screen positive (99,600*.05). That means that 93.9% of positive screens in my age group are fakse.
3. Natera states 99.9% sensitivity for their test, which means 398 of 400 T21 pregnancies (398*.999) will be detected and 2 will not.
4. Natera reports 99.5% accuracy which means that 500 of 100,000 pregnancies will screen positive, but from calculations above, on 398 are truly T21. That means 102/500 are false positives, or about 20%. So if NIPT gives us a positive, there is a 1/5 chance the results are inaccurate and we'll need an amnio to know for sure.

I'm starting to feel the baby move and all the worry over T21 is really robbing me of the joy of this pregnancy.

I hope everyone else is faring much better!!!

@LBee: Is this one better? I posted a general thread, too!

Well we got our NIPT results back, and it looks like we are having a healthy baby girl !!! I have never ugly cried so hard in all of my life. This experience really solidified my pro-choice stance and I feel really lucky to have had a good outcome. Our risk for chromosomal abnormalities is now 1/10,000.

@azjax: it's a 50/50 split so I'm just going to have to be patient! Congrats on good results and your baby girl

@LBee: right?! We won't find out until May 29th if baby cooperates. I'm so jealous you're feeling movement! I'm 15+3 today and nothing so far, but I'm not expecting to feel anything for a while. I am barely even showing yet! I hate to wish the weeks away but I'm feeling impatient these days.