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Question: First scan at 18 weeks
Q:“My wife has just become pregnant. The doctor will not do a scan until she is 18 weeks pregnant. We thought that it was normal to have a scan earlier than this and are concerned that she will be too far pregnant at 18 weeks to terminate the baby if it has Down’s etc. What…
Posted in Pregnancy, Pregnancy Tests, Question & Answer
Tagged AFP, Baby, CVS, Down’s syndrome, Pregnancy, scan
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Antenatal testing for multiple births
Antenatal care for twins or multiple pregnancies is similar to a single pregnancy but there are more scans and hospital visits, particularly in the last two months. Some of the tests designed to reassure parents that their baby is healthy are unreliable in a twin pregnancy, which can be unsettling. However, nuchal translucency screening, where…
Antenatal blood tests
You will be offered a variety of blood tests during your pregnancy. By testing your blood, a great deal can be deduced about the likely health of yourself and your baby. Whenever possible the taking of blood tests is timed so that you don’t need lots of needles on separate occasions! Blood group Usually at…
Posted in Antenatal Care, Pregnancy Health, Pregnancy Tests
Tagged anaemia, antibodies, Blood disorders, CVS, Cystic fibrosis, deafness, diabetes, Down’s syndrome, Genetic disorders, German measles, hepatitis B, HIV, Miscarriage, Rh disease, Rhesus factor, rubella, Sickle-cell disease, Thalassaemia, Toxoplasmosis, Ultrasound, Vaccination
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Diagnostic tests in early pregnancy
What is involved in diagnostic test in early pregnancy and what does it involve? Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) This is a diagnostic test which can tell you for certain whether your baby has Down’s syndrome or another genetic abnormality. The test can’t tell you whether your baby has spina bifida. When is the test carried out? Between 11…
Posted in Antenatal Care, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Tests
Tagged Amniocentesis, Amniotic fluid, Chorionic villus sampling, CVS, Diagnostic tests, Down syndrome, Down’s syndrome, Miscarriage, Percutaneous umbilical cord blood sampling, Pregnancy, Prenatal diagnosis, Spina bifida, Ultrasound
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Rhesus factor problems
When you’re pregnant, it’s important to know whether your blood is Rhesus positive (Rh+) or Rhesus negative (Rh-). This will be checked from the blood sample that you give at your first antenatal appointment. If you’re Rh-, it’s important to know whether your partner is Rh- too. If he isn’t, there’s the possibility that your baby will have a…
Find a new career as a mum
After taking a career break to be a parent, many people decide to pursue a new career direction instead of returning to their old role. Changing career can be daunting at the best of times, so it’s natural to feel overwhelmed by the challenge if you haven’t been in the workplace for a while. However,…
Posted in Work Postnatal
Tagged Chat, Childcare, CVS, Day care, Nisa Chitakasem, Position Ignition, pregnant worker, Simon North, Talk
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Antenatal testing – one mother’s story
Every year more than 700,000 women in the UK become pregnant and, as a result of antenatal testing, over 35000 will be told that their baby is at risk of a serious abnormality. Fiona was told that her first baby had a very high risk of Down’s syndrome. Here she explains how the news affected…
Posted in Antenatal Care, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Health, Pregnancy Tests
Tagged Breech birth, Caesarean section, CVS, Down syndrome, Down’s syndrome, Infertility, Jack Toby, Midwife, Miscarriage, morning sickness, Nuchal scan, Nurse, Oman, postnatal depression, Pregnancy, Prenatal diagnosis, Royal College of Nursing, Ultrasound, unexplained infertility, Vicki Allenach
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More Effective Screening For Down’s Syndrome
A recent Dutch study has indicated that early testing for Down’s syndrome – in the first trimester of pregnancy – is a more effective way of detecting the syndrome than the currently most commonly used method which tests in the second trimester. In the UK, a screening test for Down’s syndrome is carried out on all pregnant…
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Tagged Alpha-fetoprotein, Amniocentesis, British Medical Journal, CVS, Down syndrome, Down’s syndrome, Effective Screening For Down's Syndrome A, Hannah Hulme Hunter, Midwife, Miscarriage, Nuchal scan, Pregnancy, Prenatal diagnosis, Screening, syndrome, The Netherlands, Triple test, Ultrasound, Wald
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