This week I cancel the Chorionic Villus Sampling after researching it in depth. It has only been used for about 25 years so I worry about the long term effects of having a bit of your placenta taken out when you are forming. Also, it seems that less people are trained to do a CVS and the risk factors are very dependent on the person who carries out the procedure. The hospital won’t tell me individual rates for each doctor, just an overall 2% risk for the hospital itself. Then I start to get really bad feelings about the whole thing. If I have to have an abortion because something is wrong with the foetus it’s going to be awful no matter when it happens, but better to have it later and cause more trauma to myself than to live with the potential of miscarrying something that is perfectly healthy. I decide to sleep on it and see if any revelations come to me in the night and I get woken up by a drunk yelling ‘no, no, no’. I take that as a sign.
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