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Interview AN08

Interview AN08

Age at Interview: 23
Background: Children: First pregnancy, Occupation: Mother - student, Father - student, Marital status: Married.

Brief outline:Normal first pregnancy, routine screening experiences. Private care throughout pregnancy.

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The results of her nuchal scan indicated a very low risk, which was reassuring.
Print You talked earlier about odds and did you feel that you were given enough information about how to interpret risk and probability? Yes, I think that when we had that scan at 12 weeks, I think they said something like, if you have a 1 in 300 chance of having a baby with Down's Syndrome they usually recommend further testing. So, I had to just trust that that 1 in 300 chance was the typical number but I think that that's, I think that those are the, when the NHS actually sends you for amniocentesis is if the odds are something like that. So that was the marker that we went by. We got really lucky, I mean the doctor who did the scan, when she came out with our odds, she said that it was the lowest chance that she had seen in years. So we felt really reassured by that, as opposed to what the number would be to actually go and have the next step, something like amniocentesis.

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