There are three prenatal diagnostic methods from table 2.4 that I would recommend to a pregnant friend or family member, those would be an ultrasound, a maternal blood analysis, and a MRI.
Because an ultrasound is very common, MRI’s are used to scan for brain abnormalities (which is far most the important development issue in children), and from my understanding a maternal blood analysis is when the mother gets her blood drawn and tested, which also seems very important and very safe.
I chose these because they seem to cause less harm to the fetus, and they do not have risk of miscarrying a baby.
One thing that bothers me in the book is that authors do not communicate well when describing the methods, what genetic defects are they looking
Because an ultrasound is very common, MRI’s are used to scan for brain abnormalities (which is far most the important development issue in children), and from my understanding a maternal blood analysis is when the mother gets her blood drawn and tested, which also seems very important and very safe.
I chose these because they seem to cause less harm to the fetus, and they do not have risk of miscarrying a baby.
One thing that bothers me in the book is that authors do not communicate well when describing the methods, what genetic defects are they looking