The film documents an actual pregnancy of Alexis Marie Chute, as she grapples with the unique challenges of having a child after the death of child. With poignant narration, along with interesting interviews of more than twenty bereaved parents – women and men – and health care professionals,...
for Down's syndrome, an incurable chromosomal condition, as part of routine antenatal care. Drawing on an ethnography of two antenatal clinics, I explore how the prospect of Down's syndrome is interpreted and negotiated by healthcare professionals and expectant parents during screening consultations....
Pregnant persons requiring genetic carrier screening, in the late first trimester, can use a reflex single-gene NIPS (sgNIPS) technology for fetal single gene evaluation. Show abstract Non-invasive prenatal test identifies circulating cell-free DNA chromosomal abnormalities derived from clonal ...