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Making decisions about screening :
Thinking about screening and what it is for
Special reasons for wanting screening
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Discussing screening choices with your partner
Attitudes to disability and termination
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Experiences of screening :
Nuchal scan (low risk results)
Nuchal scan (being told something may be wrong)
Early dating scans
18-20 week scan (low risk results)
18-20 week scan (being told something may be wrong)
Blood test screening
Understanding screening test results
Having further tests and getting results :
Deciding whether to have further diagnostic tests
Having further tests and waiting for results
Getting diagnostic test results
Thoughts, discussions and info after diagnosis
Deciding to continue with the pregnancy :
Making the decision to continue with the pregnancy
What the rest of pregnancy and birth was like
Feelings about screening looking back
Deciding to end the pregnancy :
Making the decision to end the pregnancy
The experience of ending a pregnancy
Feelings and reflections afterwards
Views on screening & feelings in later pregnancies
When screening does not detect a condition :
Learning after birth that the baby has a condition
How it has affected parents' views about screening
Living with disabilities or a chronic condition :
Living with a child with a long term condition
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Antenatal Screening
People's stories
Baby's condition detected after birth
Interview AN10
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Baby born in April 2002 with hydrocephalus which had not been picked up during screening. Baby has had surgery and is making good progress.
Interview AN12
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Second child born with Down's syndrome after low risk nuchal scan results, and no problems detected at 20-week scan. Home birth. Daughter now ...
Interview AN03
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Daughter born November 2000 with congenital heart problems not detected by antenatal screening, diagnosed when the baby was 10 weeks old. Corrective surgery at 11 ...
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