my 12week scan showed a healthy developing baby, without a nasal bone being detected. all my blood tests were fine but this has put my down syndrome risk to 1in44 which is classified as very high.
I am doing the harmony test and if that comes back high risk I'll be going ahead with the amnio test.
my question is, has anyone had their scan showing a missing nasal bone but did not have a DS baby?
please no nasty comments I'm just looking for other mummas experiences.
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They couldn't locate my son's nasal bone and he was not born with DS. That is a soft indicator, the neck is more important and ultra sound ppl said given how tiny babies are and what position they are in, it can be hard to find.
I'm missing my nasal bone.
I have Binder's Syndrome. That's fancy talk for a facial deformity that involves the mid face, sinuses, nasal/palate and jaw.
You can fix it through cosmetic surgery and they don't really like doing the surgery before puberty because of growth.
Apart from that, it's ok.
My baby has its nasal bone but other factors gave us a very high reading for DS, Similar to yours. We have been through every emotion there is to go through and at 36 weeks I still haven't had any further testing.
DS kids are a blessing and if we were to end up with one Its just going to be one awesome ride.
Firstly, big hugs to you mumma!! It's is a very uneasy time ? I had a CVS test done for my last pregnancy and only waited 3 days before finding out my baby was perfectly healthy. I found the test to be very accurate. I don't know what my markers were, honestly don't remember much about that appointment especially after being told what had come back and that the results were 1:50. Good luck!
When i was 27 i had my first child. I had a 1 in 1870 chsnce of ds. When i was 30 i had my second child. I had a 1 in 400 chance of a child with ds. I had the 12 week scan and there was no nasal bone and the neck was too thick. I went about my day care free thinking im sure this happens alot. 3 days later i got a call from the hospital asking me to come in. I asked them to call my personal doctor. They said they would but still need me to come in. With in the hour my doctor had called and told me ther reason the hospital was so insistant that i come in was that i had a 1 in 8 chance of a ds baby. Again i was fine. I got off thr phone. Put my 3 year old in the shower while he was washing himself i sat on the bath and called my husband. Calm and collected i explained what had happened. Before the conversation was half way through i was struggling to breath i was crying so much. He was home before he hung up. (He got up from his desk and walked out of the office.) Once he was home and calmed me down he called his boss and explained that he was needed at home. We went to the hospital. A lovely doctor sat in a tiny room and explained that its 1 in 8 chance i sat quietly as he tried to explain that it was 1 in 8 not 8 in 10... 1 in 8 isnt that bad. If i pulled 8 people in here only 1 of them would have ds. They explained that i would need an exam where they stick a LARGE needle into the Placentia to extract blood. In which dna testing would be done. We left. It was blury. We sat in the car. I start crying. The doctor said the hospital would be in contact with me within the week. To scedual the exam within 2 weeks. I just cried. And cried. Through the tears i told my husband i didn't want to wait that long. That it was too long to have to wait to find out. (We had decided to terminate if our child was the 1 in the 8. For our own reasons) i cried. My husband drove us home. While i cried. About an hour or so later hubby came into my room where i was sitting in silence. He explained he called and put our case forward and we were going to the hospital the next day. I just hugged him. In silence. The next day we went into the hospital had an hour of counciling and then the exam. It didnt hurt my body but it hurt my heart. I was so excited to be pregnant. I lay there and silently cried. We leave. They told us they would call with the results the next day by 5pm. I asked they call my husband as i couldn't deal with the results. At 5.30 the counciler calls. We have the results. Your baby is perfectly healthy. And its going to be a..... we were so happy. There were more results coming in 2 weeks but these results were rarely different from the first round of results. Then at 20 weeks we had a 2 hour scan where a specialst came in and loomed over every inch of our perfect bundle. Again results were wonderful. Perfect.
I tell you this legnthy story for a few resons.
1 its not always the news you wish to hear but sometimes through all the crap news the good news comes through.
I truly hope you have a strong husband/boyfriend to help you through this process. Mine was amazing. Putting me before himself. I truly didnt understand the stress he was under until we got the call. He cried i cried. Happy day. Good luck. I hope your story ends as happy as mine.