This is my second pregnancy, and I did not do NIPT testing with my first. I’ve had friends receive false positives on the NT ultrasound and saw how stressful it was for them waiting for NIPT results after receiving those high risk results from the 12 week scan. I wanted to avoid this stress and skip straight to NIPT or if something was wrong, I wanted to know as early as possible to give my self time to process and learn more about the potential condition. The NIPT was covered through my health care spending account at work, so the cost was not an issue. Finding out the gender was a nice bonus! My results were good- a low risk, baby girl on the way. I was very happy with my experience.