(November 17, 2016 at 10:52 pm)Nymphadora Wrote:(November 17, 2016 at 3:53 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I've seen pictures of your daughter and she is beautiful. If I may ask, when/how did you find out she had Downs? And how did you handle it emotionally?
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I found out ten days before I had her. Around 34 weeks I was complaining of little to no movements so they did a fetal stress test and did fetal monitoring. It was discovered during an ultrasound that she had adualdeno atresia in her upper intestine. They wanted to do an amniocentesis to rule out a congenital abnormality. When those test results came back, it confirmed Down syndrome. The test is not typically done after 20 weeks because there is not a whole lot of room for a 7 inch needle and the chances of sticking the baby are higher. Mine was done at 34 weeks and she was not stuck.
It's important for me to tell you that although she is my oldest, she was also my fifth pregnancy. Because of that, I was followed by a perinatologist, which is a more experienced doctor than an OB.
Wow, I'm so sorry you lost 5 of your babies. That's so rough.
Were they all during 1st trimester? Did the docs ever find out why any of them died?
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