Our team recommends ...

• Family History, Genetic Counseling and Pedigree for risk assessment

(It can be given by telephone.)
• All pregnant women near the age of 35 should be offered diagnostic prenatal studies. (Seek information as soon as possible.)
• Triple screen and AFP screening studies are not sufficient to resolve concerns about chromosome defects in a fetus.  Diagnostic and not screening studies are necessary, in this instance, amniocentesis, high resolution ultrasound, chromosome studies and AFP.  This is true for all women, regardless of age.

If you are approaching or are over 35 and are or plan to be pregnant, you should be offered prenatal diagnostic studies and not screening only.