This is such a sticky issue.... if I were a pregnant woman over 40, I imagine I'd be very tempted to have the testing done. But the problem is if you get a false positive on one or more of the conditions -- can you really trust the test. And then there's also the fact that there are so many conditions and abnormalities that can occur that are not genetic. I went through that situation when I lost one of my twin boys to amniotic banding syndrome, which is not genetic. The thing is, you just never know. There's no guarantee that you're pregnant with a healthy baby, no matter how much testing you do.
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This is such a sticky issue.... if I were a pregnant woman over 40, I imagine I'd be very tempted to have the testing done. But the problem is if you get a false positive on one or more of the conditions -- can you really trust the test. And then there's also the fact that there are so many conditions and abnormalities that can occur that are not genetic. I went through that situation when I lost one of my twin boys to amniotic banding syndrome, which is not genetic. The thing is, you just never know. There's no guarantee that you're pregnant with a healthy baby, no matter how much testing you do.
December 27, 2008 - 11:06pmThis Comment
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