[sitetest]

Reminds me of the stupid a$$hole nurse-midwife who told us our first son had an 80% chance of being born with Down Syndrome.

[AnnaZ]

I had acquaintances who were told that their child would be born with Downs. They agonized, but when someone recommended a friend of their's who adopted Downs babies, they realized that if a perfect stranger could love their child, so could they.

They continued through the pregnancy (even being told at 8 months that they could still abort!), and gave birth to a perfect little girl. (The father was barely restrained at delivery time, and the doctor had to leave immediately or be badly beaten.)

A couple of years later they adopted a Downs child. Really good people.

[sono]

God bless that 20%.

[MHGinTN]

Check to see if the hospital or clinic has a ‘tissues’ contract with a harvesting agency supplying ‘parts’ to research programs. It’s a more than a billion dollar industry now; got to have tissue sources don’tchaknow.

[gridlock]

Was it the fetal alpha protien blood test that the nurse/midwife depended on for that “diagnosis”?

[Stoat]

Reminds me of the stupid a$$hole nurse-midwife who told us our first son had an 80% chance of being born with Down Syndrome.

Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're wrong.  Unfortunately, due to the social legitimization of "abortion" (the wanton murder of children), many medical "professionals" feel not only empowered but strongly motivated to quickly bring up the very most negative possibilities, no matter how remote.  In fairness, much of this is motivated (at least here in the USA) by an absolutely visceral terror of lawsuits and of the subsequent desire to lay out, in the most stark and unvarnished detail, the worst-case scenario as being not only a possibility but an extremely likely probability.  This removes them, or at least insulates them somewhat, from possible legal charges of "failure to adequately warn the patient of the consequences."

That being said, a nurse - midwife is not licensed to provide medical diagnoses, only nursing diagnoses.  That is the realm of an MD or Nurse Practioner.   From your description, it sounds as though this person was acting outside of her standards of practice, something that is rigidly adhered to by all healthcare workers who have even the most passing, vague interest in the concept of professionalism.  It sounds also that she may have been motivated by a militant-feminist "empowerment" agenda that moved her to steer you into the murderous clutches of Planned Parenthood for "professional prenatal care"

My great hope is that everything turned out well for you and your family despite the efforts of this unprofessional and possibly criminal idiot.

[fellowpatriot]

A friend of mine went to the hospital one Saturday morning with severe abdominal pain. After performing numerous x-rays of her stomach, they gave her pain medication and advised her to go see her doctor the following Monday. It turned out that she was pregnant. Her doctor told her that due to the x-rays and pain meds, chances were high that the baby would be deformed or mentally impaired and advised her to abort it. She told her doctor that the word ‘abortion’ wasn’t in her dictionary. She ended up giving birth to a healthy boy. Thank God she didn’t listen to that doctor!