TW: Vanishing twin

I’m having a hard time finding much support on this… Has anyone here experienced vanishing twin? We unfortunately lost baby A last week (around 9 weeks) but baby B is thankfully doing really well. My doctor didn’t have a clear answer for me about doing the NIPT and gender testing at 12 weeks… will the vanishing baby impact the results? Do we have to wait longer than normal to do the testing?

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I have not experienced it, but I work with this all of the time!

First I’m sorry about your loss

Yes vanishing twin syndrome can affect the NIPT test!

And will effect the gender results because tiny fragments if baby dna could get misinterpreted to baby A,

You have to wait 8 weeks before you can have a NIPT test and a gender test! Xx

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