Forgive me, but........Downs Syndrome is extremely unusual in babies born to teens.

[Erin Elizabeth]

EXTREMELY unusual. Especially compared to mothers in their forties.

http://www.ds-health.com/risk.htm Check it out. 1 in 1250 babies born to 15 to 19 year olds have Downs Syndrome. However, Palin, at her age, had a 1 in 25 to 1 in 40 chance of having a Downs Syndrome baby. That's a big snag in these theories, people.

And now I'll be getting back to chuckling at the fact that the republicans aren't even having a convention.


(Arnold can't come because of his state's "budget crisis?" Really?)

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. I do believe you said unusual. Plus how does a woman with a flat stomach ....

... go through a pregnancy when all her previous pregnancy pictures show a woman that develops a giant barrel of a stomach? Magic? Some brand new girdle?

[MiaCulpa]

2. Not unusual at all.

Until recently, the only factor used to identify women at high risk for DS was their age. At age 40, for example, the chance of having a baby with DS is about 1 in 100. This has led to many hospitals offering amniocentesis to women over a certain age, usually 35 or 37. The problem with this is that it only will identify 15-30% of all cases of DS; the majority still occur in women who are younger (because there are more of them having babies, even though, individually their risk is less).

http://www.womens-health.co.uk/downs.asp


-Diane

[Erin Elizabeth]

3. Did you look at the link I provided?