I went to my first doctors appointment yesterday and was told about all these blood test for percentages for differant diseases and mental illnesses the baby could have. Are these tests nessasary? Are they really important? I want to do whats best for the baby but if all they are going to do is worry us i dont think its nessasary. Anyone take them? And did it make a differance in your pregnancy?
its up to you if you want to take them. I personally do all of them, I want to be as best prepared as I can
I never do them. A lot of these tests have high rate of false negatives, not to mention they make people super paranoid.
there is very little in a pregnancy that you have to do. However, most of the tests are basic. Likein your first one they were also checking your hormones levels to make sure that they are rising like they are supposed to. The one test I wish we hadn't done and I won't do again, is the quad test between 15-20 weeks. It has a 60% false positive rate and when you get a false positive (like I did) the stress isn't worth it. I suggest not doing that test, but that is my opinion.
Don't wanna tell you how to do your job, but...
- firsttimemom755
on Jan. 17, 2013 at 2:22 PM