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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 176750" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkgreen">With easy child, I did all the suggested tests and was miserable from them. I found them invasive (just having to go and be prodded and have strangers looking at me and touching me felt invasive to me), but I trusted my then OB so I went along with everything.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkgreen">With difficult child, I had a midwife and planned on having her at home so although the tests were offered (not suggested), I declined all of them. I figured if abortion was not a consideration, why stress over it. I had a very pleasant pregnancy with difficult child and was very healthy and the initial blood work came back fine so all I needed was that gestational diabetes test at 5 months and that came back fine too. I never had an ultrasound or anything. Of course, all my plans went out the window when in the 8th month difficult child turned breach and my midwife wouldn't deliver at home. difficult child ended up being a</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkgreen"> c-section in our teaching hospital! So much for non-invasive!</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkgreen">Go with your gut - if you don't feel its necessary, then don't have the test.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkgreen">And from another standpoint...think about the money & energy saved by not having the test. I think you're right about this being the 'new toy'.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 176750, member: 2211"] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkgreen]With easy child, I did all the suggested tests and was miserable from them. I found them invasive (just having to go and be prodded and have strangers looking at me and touching me felt invasive to me), but I trusted my then OB so I went along with everything.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkgreen]With difficult child, I had a midwife and planned on having her at home so although the tests were offered (not suggested), I declined all of them. I figured if abortion was not a consideration, why stress over it. I had a very pleasant pregnancy with difficult child and was very healthy and the initial blood work came back fine so all I needed was that gestational diabetes test at 5 months and that came back fine too. I never had an ultrasound or anything. Of course, all my plans went out the window when in the 8th month difficult child turned breach and my midwife wouldn't deliver at home. difficult child ended up being a[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkgreen] c-section in our teaching hospital! So much for non-invasive![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkgreen]Go with your gut - if you don't feel its necessary, then don't have the test.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkgreen]And from another standpoint...think about the money & energy saved by not having the test. I think you're right about this being the 'new toy'.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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