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I just recently found out i'm pregnant with my 3rd child. two of my children are from a previous marriage and i am now pregnant with my fiance's child and he is 38 i will be 29 in a week. my 2nd child has trisomy 21 downs syndrome. everyone i talk to keep

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?????: What is the ? , but obviously you will get testing and an amiocentesis if indicated and you want it, if you were my pt not knowing all your details i would immediately refer you to the perinatolgist that I use so you can be counseled and worked up to make sure you unborn fetus is normal ( or not), so you can procede accordingly.

Answered 8/26/2012

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Dr. Nikolaos Zacharias answered

Specializes in Maternal-Fetal Medicine

MaterniT21.: Your question was cut-off - but, if i understand correctly, you are concerned about the risk of Down syndrome in your current fetus because of your prior infant with down. My answer is easy: take folate, (folic acid) get genetic counseling and consider the maternit21 non-invasive test by sequenom (or others similar to it now commercially available) to determine this fetus' risk for down syndrome. Best of luck!

Answered 2/18/2015

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