NIPT high risk, waiting for amnio and results
I know there are about a million similar threads but wanted to share my journey, as I have taken solace in reading these. I hope it will end up happy, with a false positive and a healthy baby but time will tell.
My husband and I lost our first ever baby at 6 weeks. I didn't expect it to devastate me as much as it did. It took the joy out of pregnancy and when we got pregnant a second time, it was a big deal just to reach the 12-13 week threshold.
That was supposed to be the moment we would share our pregnancy with family and friends. Instead, I got the call for the NIPT results. 78% high risk for Monosomy X, which was the worst possible way to learn we were having a girl. Ultrasounds have looked normal so far. NIPT was with a 16% fetal fraction, which is higher than a lot of people get.
So we're pretty sure it's there. The question is whether it's in baby or just the placenta. We are hanging on to that 70-80% false positive rate and trying not to hang our hats on that 78%, because it's measuring the placenta and because Natera's numbers seem inflated compared to other studies.
This is a very hard place to be. Today I had to dry my eyelashes with my blow dryer so I could get ready for work. I cry pretty much every day but try my best to keep my stress levels low for baby.
We have our amnio soon. We went straight to that after learning the CVS is all but useless in terms of an accurate confirmation. There is risk of miscarriage with amnio but it's reportedly low, and we need an answer to move forward.
If baby is full Turners, we will TFMR. We are not optimistic about mosaic. The research around the percent of mosaic is spotty, it feels a lot like a dice roll on their quality of life.
I hope to update this post soon with a happy result. Please keep my husband and me in your thoughts, prayers or whatever energy you can spare.