Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS)

Thanks for this video! Glad I saw it before I got my CVS laast week. As I'm afraid of needle proced. that go beyond vacc. or blood tests, I wanted to know how a CVS is done in reality - the details incl. how long it takes, about how much pain to expect, how much control the patient has over what happens - to avoid nasty surprises. After watching this, I decided for myself to have a vaginal CVS or none at all. Luckily a vaginal CVS was possible. Respect for the woman in the video! From Holland, S

Target audience seems pretty obvious to me! Pregnant women trying to find out what actually happens in the procedure, to help make an informed choice of whether or not to have the test!

i had two...not so bad, i feel pretty good right now. they jabbed mewith sme local to, does that affect the baby? wasn't given the option. im good with pain so..i hope everything turned out well for you. i watched the screen not the needles so i got to se it from a different view here lol

wat is villus

ideally u do not use anesthesia
whats with the people here ranting about sterility
its an outpatient procedure
the needle that went in was sterile right?
sterile is meant for procedure where you touch the object and it goes inside
don't see the ultrasound probe doing that....

There is a risk of infection to the fetus, so of course sterility is important!!

of course sterility is important but then you should know what it means
as i said the needle goes in which is sterile
the hands stay far far away from the invasion site!
so no risk there
he clearly knows what he is doing

was done a lot more professionally & caring by the drs who did the test on me, my whole belly was disinfected & even the scan probe was put inside a plastic bag to make it more sterile, dont let this example put you off having the test done if its needed