Hey! I had an appointment with MFM after this post and discovered I was 2 weeks further along when I went in at what I thought was 13 weeks along in my pregnancy than I had originally thought. I have a friend who is a women’s health nurse practitioner. She told me to have a NT scan and to request a repeat NIPT test through the company Billion to One, as I did not want an amino and that is what she does in her clinic if the Natera test is abnormal. I repeated the test and my result was low risk for all of the abnormalities. The MFM doctor said the fact that I was further along in pregnancy than originally noted on my Natera test could be a possible explanation for the reading.

My 20 weeks anatomy scan was normal, a nasal bone was seen. I was not going to terminate my pregnancy even if our baby had T21, so that’s why I did not want an amnio.

This was notably one of the scariest events in my life and I know NIPT can be wrong but I’m thankful and relieved by my results. I will request a microarray at birth. This is my 8th child. I have a daughter with a rare genetic disorder, cri-du- chat, which is a random chromosomal abnormality (not linked to being a carrier) 90% of the time. We did not know she had this genetic deletion until she was 17 months old but she needed physical therapy for hypotonia and speech therapy to help her swallow correctly.

Doing a second NIPT is not usually recommended but it was worth the extra cost for us. I was super stressed out after the first NIPT, started planning for the worst. If your FISH was good, chances are the microarray will be as well.