Older pregnant, I had an amniocentesis

I was 43 years old, a really older pregnant woman, and at 19 weeks of pregnancy, I volunteered to have an amniocentesis. According to the prenatal screening norms, elderly pregnant women are told by doctors to do amniocentesis, but many pregnant women, as soon as they hear about punctures and smoke amniotic fluid, are either afraid or worried about the impact on their children, and their attitude is resolute to say that they will not do it. My real experience is really not painful, to say that the feeling, it is similar to tickling yourself a little heavier, much lighter than the pain during the infusion and blood draw, it can really be described as painless. I have also asked some pregnant women who have had amniocentesis, most of them say that it is not painful, and some say that there is a little pain and can be completely tolerated. This is not to say how strong and brave pregnant women are, but the reduction of abdominal wall pain in pregnant women may be related to the sparse distribution of nerves and changes in hormone levels after pregnancy swelling. When puncturing, I am very relaxed, so that it can also make the doctor's operation more smooth, if the pregnant woman is overly nervous, it is possible that the abdominal wall muscles of the pregnant woman will be stiff or even wrap around the needle, which is not conducive to the doctor's operation and will increase the pain. Most pregnant women choose to do noninvasive DNA, and some basic project countries are already free, and additional projects need to be paid out of pocket. But noninvasive DNA testing is a kind of prenatal screening, and amniocentesis is a prenatal diagnosis, although the accuracy is very high, but can not reach 100%, if there is a problem with noninvasive DNA results, further amniocentesis is needed to confirm the diagnosis, and amniocentesis can check more diseases than non-invasive DNA tests. I wanted to do it in one step and decisively chose to do amniocentesis.

After waiting for nearly a month, the results came out, and the result was that there were no abnormalities in the macrosomes, micro-repetitions were visible, and the micro-repeat fragments were unknown to the clear function. Seeing such a result, my lover and I are very worried, very anxious, the report does not say exactly normal, nor does it exactly say abnormal, what to do? For this kind of report that is not clearly told whether it is normal, my lover and I understand it. Medicine is constantly evolving, unknown diseases are constantly being discovered and diagnosed, and some medical problems are less than 100%. My lover and I repeatedly studied the meaning of the examination report, understanding that the general chromosome results are normal, that is, there is no more common chromosomal diseases such as trisomy 21 and trisomy syndrome, and the result of micro-deletion micro-repetition is a micro-repetition, but it is not certain whether it is pathogenic, but no abnormalities have been found in the micro-deletion micro-repetition of the currently known pathogenicity. Our child has a micro-replicate of a chromosome, what is the function of this chromosome? Is its repetition pathogenic? Current medical studies have not yet been found. This passage is a bit winding, what does it mean? It can be understood that chromosomes have four arms, and one arm has a problem, all of which are chromosomal diseases, which are more serious. There are many, many fragments on each arm, some fragments have functions, some fragments have no function, some fragments are unknown whether they have function, some fragments are repeated or missing will cause disease, some fragments are repeated or missing without treatment, and some fragments are repeated or missing whether they cause disease and have not been discovered. Our result is the repetition of an unknown functional fragment, we do not know what the function of this fragment is, whether this fragment repetition is pathogenic. My lover and I are hanging up, do not know what to do, consulted a genetics professional doctor, he asked whether to do prenatal ultrasound screening, I told him to do, the result is normal at the same time showed him the results of prenatal ultrasound screening, he suggested checking the chromosomes of both husband and wife, to see if the micro-duplication of the fetus is inherited from the parents, if it is inherited from the parents, the parents do not have abnormal manifestations, then the fetus is normal; if the micro-repetition is not inherited from the parents, or the fetal chromosomes have mutated. I asked the doctor, if there is a mutation in the chromosome, must it be curative? Doctors say chromosomal mutations are common and it is uncertain whether they cause the disease. My lover and I thought about it for a while and decided not to continue the examination. If this micro-repetition comes from the parent, because the parent has no abnormal manifestation, the child has no manifestation, it is normal; if the micro-repetition is a sudden mutation, it is not certain whether it is pathogenic. I discussed with my lover: if this micro-repetition is inherited from the parents, it is normal, we must continue to be pregnant; if this micro-repetition is a sudden mutation and we are not sure whether it is pathogenic, we must also continue to be pregnant. Therefore, whether this micro-repetition is inherited from the parents or a sudden mutation, we have to continue the pregnancy, and we do not care whether this micro-repetition is inherited from the parents or a sudden mutation, we care about whether the fetus is healthy, so there is no need to continue to check. Of course, we look forward to having a healthy baby, but also be prepared for a bad mental, make up our minds, no matter what, we accept, in case there is anything bad, we take care of it ourselves, in case the baby is not healthy, we raise him for a lifetime.