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Paula,
Don't get worked up over it. I to have anxiety disorder, and I got all worked up over nothing. Lost a lot of nights sleep over it, and there was nothing wrong, it is just one of those things that happens.

Your MD is giving you the default odds. For your age default odds put you at a 1 in 600 or so risk. Concensus is that finding an EIF about halves those odds, although our specialist says it is not even that much in reality. So that is why your MD put you at 1 in 300. But, and here is the big but, your quad screening put you at an even lower chance of 1 in 254,000. So if you halve that, your chances are in the 1 in 127,000 range. That is way good.

I learned to look at it like this, and it helped. If your chances are 1 in 127,000, that means there is greater than a 99.998% that your baby will be normal. Heck, even at a 1 in 1000 chance, you still have a 99.9% of everything being normal. Those are extreemly high odds of everything being fine.

Don't loose sleep over it, if it helps talk to your doctor about the last US. Leg and arm length are a big factor, if they were normal, you realy have nothing to worry about.

Andrew

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