I haven't misinterpreted, your study and mine says that the higher the maternal age the more liklihood of KS. So, high maternal age and KS in Sarah's case is not linked? Regardless of age, KS is deemed high risk pregnancy. This is so they can monitor growth (as KS babies can be born under the 10th percentile in weight),they are more at risk of pre term delivery, rates of neonatal death is 9.5%times higher and incidences of infant death is 50% more.
If Sarah has a 'High risk pregnancy' due to prenatal diagnosis of KS it is to monitor the babies progress and growth to avoid or get ahead of possible complications. A pregnancy with a fetus with chromosomal abnormalities isn't going to be treated the same as any other pregnancy
Correlation doesn't equal causation.
Studies done on KS and mortility/morbitity don't factor in age - and age is the leading factor. The article you listed actually pointed out my very point.
The older you are, the more likely you are to have a baby with KS. Most studies that determine KS high risk only factor in if a) if the baby has KS and b) the mortality and mobitidy outcomes. It's completely overlooking a confounding factor, once which that article you linked actually addressed. It's age, not KS.
A young mother with a KS baby is a whole other kettle of fish. And to Sarah's defense, maybe she's done the exact same research and misinterpreted the results and is genuinely scared when the science backs that she, because she is young, will most likely have a completely normal pregnancy, birth and a child with mild symptoms that aren't noticeble enough to get a diagnosis such as the case of 50% of the people who actually have the condition.
But she doesn't seemed too concerned about her health during this pregnancy, just about how her child might be "different' which leads me to beleive she does know she has an extremely low risk of complications during pregnancy and birth. She's trying for a natural birth etc and is ignoring doctors advice regarding labour and taking care of herself, yet again.
Also, you previously claimed that in vitro testing and diagnosis of KS results in a 50% chance of terminantion, which is false, and that was my initial point. I wasn't even initially claiming that it's not "high risk" - as you said it's a chromosomally abnormal pregnancy so of course they'd see specialists but it's not like 1 in 2 people are getting abortions and/or dying because their baby has this usually mild condition. That's dramatic and factually incorrect.
Edit: P.S. I'm a little confused by your first paragraph because Sarah is not a "high maternal age" mother; she's not even 30.
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is better, now we can get back to the important stuff like telling us about her uterus.
