Waiting for the Amniocentesis
- 5 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 320 (1) , 63-64
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198901053200120
Abstract
To the Editor: I drafted the following letter to the editor one week before I expected to hear the results of my amniocentesis:"I am 40 years old and 19 weeks pregnant with what will presumably be my third child. I am on the basic-science faculty of a medical school. When I teach medical students about amniocentesis, I occasionally mention the difficulty for the woman of having to wait until well into the second trimester to receive her results."I am in that situation myself now, awaiting my results. And before experiencing it, I was unprepared for two phenomena. One . . .Keywords
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