down syndrome test?

[jolayla]

How do they do the down syndrome test. I don't know if I really want to have it done the people who I know who have gotten it done it always comes back that they do but than they find out there baby doesn't. I guess I'm just wondering how they do it they don't put a needle in your belly button do they?

[nclark1003]

I had the test where I found out I was having a baby boy at 11 weeks and also found out he was clear for down syndrome,  trisomy 18 & 13. :)

[jolayla]

Thanks you mommies to be.

[Cbuscus]

First test is to take blood and use 12 week scan where they measure the fluid in the back of babies neck. to determine high or low risk. If you are high risk then they offer further test which is where they take fluid from sac to give you a more accurate reading although doing so increases chance of miscarriage.
Hope this helps

[samanthammmarie]

I just had it done last week. I just had the ultrasound and it took a while but it was so nice to see my baby for that long. We listened to the hear beat and got the baby in the perfect position got the rest of the pictures and then they pricked my finger took 4 drops oft blood and I got a few pictures and then we left

[check3]

There are multiple options now to check for chromosone abnormalities. We had 2 noninvasive options.  The first was a blood test that checks for certain proteins in the blood along with an ultrasounds to check for what they call "soft markers". This test gets a lot of false positive.
The second options we had was the NIPT blood test. This one can only been done at certain labs.  There are chromosones from the baby that float around in the mothers blood.  They can pull certain chromosomes out to test them.  It's 99% accurate for down syndrome,  97% for trisomy 18, & like 88% for trisomy 13. This test can also detect y chromosones. So you can find out the sex of the baby with over 99% accuracy.

[jolayla]

Okay. I'm just a big baby and someone told me they put a needle in your belly button and I won't even let anyone touch my belly button if it's just them getting blood I might

[nclark1003]

When I had mine down they just took some blood and sent it off to the lab.