I had my ultrasound on Friday at 19w3d - it was a level 2 ultrasound at a special doctor (not my usual OB office) because we have some family history with heart defects at birth and wanted to be careful. The heart looked good, but after the tech left the doc came in and told us we had "bright bowel" or echogenic bowel, which is a soft marker for down syndrome or cystic fibrosis. The doc stressed that most times (95%) it means nothing, but there is a 5% chance that it could be downs or CF. I have no other markers - they measured the kidneys and some flap on the head, which were all fine, and i'm 28 so i'm not high risk because of that.

So, the doc suggested i do blood tests, didn't even bring up amniocentesis, and said the blood test they do basically pulls the babies DNA out of my blood and tests it definitively for DS, and then they do another test to see if I'm a carrier for CF and if i am then they'll test my husband to see if he's a carrier, too.

I won't get the results back for 2 weeks. In the mean time i'm scared silly. Does anyone else have experience with bright bowel or other soft markers?