What Doctors Don't Tell YouTo reassure women that their babies are healthy, medicine has come up with a battery of tests that look for fetal abnormalities. Some, like amniocentesis, are invasive tests that carry risks for the baby.
Rather than simply relying on age, St. James hospital in Leeds has come up with a three part non invasive test that supposedly shows with 90 per cent accuracy the likelihood of having a baby with ...
Ultrasound scans can predict Down’s syndrome. A nuchal scan measures the depth of the dark fluid-filled space at the back of the baby’s neck at 10-13 weeks of pregnancy. If the space is thicker than usual, your baby may be at risk of Down’s.
The biggest risk you may face of having a deformed or retarded child could be when taking the prenatal diagnostic tests themselves. ... ...
* Avoid Doppler, particularly the duplex variety for detecting the baby’s heartbeat and pulse; the ‘Doptone’ fetal-pulse detector is a commonly used handheld device. The B-mode has a higher safety margin
Last autumn Michelle Huberman, who gave birth to a daughter with Down's syndrome, initiated a £1m lawsuit against her doctor, obstetrician Yehudi Gordon, for allegedly failing to provide her wit ...
Children with Down's syndrome have low levels of zinc, according to a recent study. ...
What if Down's syndrome is treatable? What if Down's children weren't born retarded but simply had a learning disability and metabolic disorder that could be corrected? ...
Why do American blacks have fewer Down's syndrome births than any other racial group? And why should Hispanics fare the worst, with 11.8 Down's syndrome babies out of every 10,000 births? ...
Medicine persists in characterizing Down's syndrome as more prevalent among older mothers a result of "tired eggs". However, in one study in Copenhagen, of 1086 pregnant women given amniocentesis, ...
