Thinking Through the Triple Screen Prenatally

A few years ago I would have gotten the screenings. What people choose to do or to not do is directly influenced by different life experiences. I know myself now, and I know that even if I had gotten screenings, I would have worried that I had been in the 0.5 percent that gets a false negative. That's just how I am. Actually, in this pregnancy, I've been worried about everything also, first I worried because I wasn't gaining or sick, then I was sick, so obviously my hcg was doing it's thing and I worried it was a molar pregnancy. Now I've felt the baby move, and I STILL have it in the back of my mind that it's a molar pregnancy. I'm just like that. I would have had a spiral of interventions and diagnostic tests that would have just made me more nervous. That's just how I am. Thankfully I figured it out myself before I go pregnant, and I have figured that the best thing for me is to opt out of screenings unless I have direct symptoms that should be investigated. I've been attempting to actively change my mindset. I learned about my body, being able to find my fundus at 12 weeks on my own. I just recently bothered to get a blood pressure cuff out of curiosity, and just ordered a fetoscope, also out of curiosity.

I totally know where other people are coming from, why they would want the triple screen. I know I would have done the same thing a few years ago. Actually, the reason why I'm not doing them is because my husband wants me to tell him exactly why I need to do XYZ before I do it but in doing that he has caused me to question my little medical safety net that I relied on before.