NIPT trisomy 18
I’m 12 weeks pregnant and just got the results back a few days ago. I’m trying really really hard to stay as positive as I can because my doctor put it this way to me “you’re not going to get to the end of this and think ‘I wish I had been less hopeful’” and that really stuck with me. So, I’m 26, husband is 25. We were flagged for a positive trisomy 18 result with a fetal fraction of 15% and a PPV of 13.7. I’ve been researching like crazy for the last 48 hours and the way this was put to me was that our result is a lower risk and because of my age it’s extremely rare. This is our first pregnancy and we did confirm gender and it’s a boy(!). I’m posting because I tried to find results similar to mine but struggled and just wanted to reach out to the community and see if anybody had similar results and maybe what your outcome was. I am prepared for the worst but hoping for the best. Maybe I am in denial a little bit because I love this baby so much already, but I do understand what this could all mean.