blog piece: TMI: When should Doctors Keep Their Mouths shut?

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Interesting piece hereTMI: When Should Doctors Keep Their Mouths Shut?"If you’re in your first trimester, or you’ve ever been frightened by information given from an ultrasound, I highly recommend reading Nina Misuraca Ignaczak’s piece

here <http://www.babble.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-health/chromosomal-abnormality-ultrasound-edwards-syndrome-prenatal-testing/> about the “soft markers†for chromosomal abnormalities. Ignaczak writes

about a personal experience, but it’s one that happens to so many women, and it’s not discussed nearly enough.

It happened to me. At my 20 week ultrasound– the “anatomical scan,†during which the technician measures all of the body parts, looking for anything out of the ordinary– I was told there was a calcification in the baby’s heart.....Now, in my story I’d played a part in getting this information. In Ignaczak’s story, she was flat out told that her baby had a soft marker for ’s syndrome, a serious and fatal chromosomal abnormality. She was also told that the information was statistically insignificant. She also worried through her whole pregnancy, and even after she had her healthy baby in her arms, that something could be wrong...."<http://blogs.babble.com/being-pregnant/2010/11/23/tmi-when-should-doctors-keep-their-mouths-shut/>I wrote a comment but I'm not sure it's appearing right away. OH It was published!Liora

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Interesting piece hereTMI: When Should Doctors Keep Their Mouths Shut?

" If you’re in your first trimester, or you’ve ever been frightened by information given from an ultrasound, I highly recommend reading Nina Misuraca Ignaczak’s piece

here <http://www.babble.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-health/chromosomal-abnormality-ultrasound-edwards-syndrome-prenatal-testing/> about the “soft markers” for chromosomal abnormalities. Ignaczak writes

about a personal experience, but it’s one that happens to so many women, and it’s not discussed nearly enough.

It happened to me. At my 20 week ultrasound– the “anatomical scan,” during which the technician measures all of the body parts, looking for anything out of the ordinary– I was told there was a calcification in the baby’s heart.....Now, in my story I’d played a part in getting this information. In Ignaczak’s story, she was flat out told that her baby had a soft marker for ’s syndrome, a serious and fatal chromosomal abnormality. She was also told that the information was statistically insignificant. She also worried through her whole pregnancy, and even after she had her healthy baby in her arms, that something could be wrong.... " <http://blogs.babble.com/being-pregnant/2010/11/23/tmi-when-should-doctors-keep-their-mouths-shut/>

I wrote a comment but I'm not sure it's appearing right away.   OH It was published!Liora