“Mom, I have some not-good news,” my 35-year-old daughter told me. Jeanie was 10 weeks pregnant and had just received results from a routine prenatal blood screen. Her voice was flat, and my stomach dropped.
My daughter had been excitedly waiting to learn the baby’s sex from this test. Instead, Jeanie was told that her fetus “might” be as higher risk for chromosomal abnormalities.
The test was inconclusive. Jeanie was assured there were several common reasons for such a result. Women who were overweight, had gotten pregnant through IVF (in vitro fertilization) or were carrying multiples often had inconclusive results on this screen. But my daughter met none of these criteria.