Rising Down’s Syndrome Cases Linked With Delayed Maternity

Women that postponed maternity have led to a major soar in the number of offspring detected with Down’s syndrome in the span of the previous two decades.

With documentation revealing a sharp seventy-one percent rise in cases diagnosed during pregnancy has shot up from 1,075 during 1989-1990 to 1,843 cases during the years 2007-2008.

However, the rate of births of babies congenitally having Down’s syndrome has shown slight plummet over the same span of time due to the major improvement in diagnostic procedures and consequent medical terminations of pregnancy.

The cases of women in their forties giving birth to children have risen twofold in ten years time.

Authorized statistics during 2005 have shown more than 22,000 child births among forty-plus women that have risen from 11,300 child births a decade ago.

Doctors assert the fact that several women fail to comprehend the fact that they are raising the risk of their child having Down’s syndrome by sixteen times when they are planning children past 40 years as compared to when they plan in their twenties.

The study revealed that live child deliveries of babies with Down’s syndrome actually dropped by one percent during the 2 decade time span.

Down’s syndrome occurs due to an additional chromosome produced erroneously during the course of conception. Such kids have developmental delays with an extent of learning problems. However, majority of them could do most of the normal functions and several even attending regular schools.

During the course of the study that went online in the British Medical Journal, scientists investigated information from the Down’s register for England and Wales.

The chances of having a Down’s syndrome child is 1 among 940 in women who are thirty and increases to 1 among 85 when they reached forty years of age. However, the actual numbers of medical termination of pregnancies have soared as more cases of Down’s syndrome have been able to be diagnosed.

Mostly women are made to believe that giving birth to a child with developmental disabilities is the most terrible event to have taken place. On the contrary, a child having Down’s syndrome must be equally valued. These women are unaware of the immense support that is accessible for kin tending for a child with Down’s syndrome. Down’s syndrome kids are truly special and have been observed to have exceptional emotional intellect and could effortlessly fine-tune to other people’s moods and sentiments.

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