Down syndrome test

Hello Mummies! Do your think is necessary to do the Down syndrome test? I am struggling to decide.

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It depends on individual. Some couples want to do it so that to abort if the baby has issues due to several reasons(baby's future especially when the couple die at old age, financial, reluctant to see the baby suffer, stress to handle, others view etc) whereas some will accept and get themselves prepared. We did it so that to prepare ourselves. Just to share, was told by gynaecologist that my younger child may have heart/brain issue or may not survive long after birth when my wife was on 3 days to 24 weeks pregnancy(one is disallow to terminate when is 24 weeks). We decided not to abort. She is healthy, smart and doing well now(can be even better but we didn't push).

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