NIPT is a highly accurate blood test that screens your baby for the most common chromosomal conditions, including Down syndrome (trisomy 21), Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18) and Patau syndrome (trisomy 13). You can also choose to find out your baby’s sex at no additional cost. I come to your home to take the blood sample, so there’s no clinic, no waiting room and no unnecessary travel.
The test analyses fragments of your baby’s DNA that circulate naturally in your bloodstream during pregnancy. It is non-invasive, a single blood draw from your arm, and carries no risk of miscarriage.
NIPT is significantly more accurate than routine combined screening: out of every 100 babies who have one of these conditions, the test will correctly identify more than 99. It is a screening test rather than a diagnostic one, so a high probability result will need to be confirmed through further testing, if that is what you want. It does not screen for neural tube defects such as spina bifida, so your routine dating and anatomy scans remain important throughout your pregnancy.
You can have NIPT from 10 weeks of pregnancy, and you’ll need to have had a dating scan beforehand. It doesn’t need to be your NHS dating scan; any dating scan that confirms you are at least 10 weeks pregnant is fine. The scan matters for three reasons:
Once your sample is taken, you can still message me with any questions for four weeks.
