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Cause Marketing and Corporate Sponsorships
National Fatherhood Initiative® is the country's most influential fatherhood organization. We're in the fabric of social service and community-based organizations across the country to which fathers, mothers, and families turn for help.
Because one in three children (24 million) in America will sleep tonight in a home without their father, seeking to end father absence is one of the most socially responsible acts to which a company or brand can commit. Through cause marketing and corporate sponsorship, we take your voice on the importance of involved fathers beyond commercials and ad campaigns to a place of societal impact that makes a tangible difference in the lives of children, parents, and communities.
Through events, skill-building programs and products, and our digital and social media platforms, we channel your cause marketing and sponsorship efforts to improve the lives of families in every state and in the most diverse communities in the country.
Fathers are Good for Business
Why? Because dads are a major buying force. Especially in areas like finance, automotive, home improvement, electronics, entertainment, sports, and outdoors recreation.
- In fact, a recent study by ESPN Research and Analytics found that men almost always outspend women during the holidays. The percentage of men who are the primary buyers in their households has jumped from 14 percent in 1985 to 33 percent today. Men are buyers rather than shoppers, an important distinction to a company's bottom line.
Because helping fathers and families aligns with your customer. The vast majority of Millennials, 4 in 5, are more likely to do business with a company that supports a cause they care about. And they care about parenthood. More than half of them say that parenthood is one of the most important things in life.
What's Good for Business is Good for Society
Marketing to dads helps combat of one of the most consequential social problems of recent decades—widespread father absence in the lives of children.
- 1 in 3 children (some 24 million) in America will sleep tonight in a home without their father, and 9 in 10 parents agree that there is a father absence crisis. Father absence has devastated communities across the country.
- Children who grow up without fathers are, on average, more likely to suffer from a range of poor outcomes, including: poverty, alcohol and drug abuse, teen pregnancy, poor school performance, behavioral problems, and suicide.
Helping fathers is helping families and communities. When you help fathers be the best dads they can be, you respond to the belief among 75 percent of Millennials—the largest generation of consumers the U.S. has ever seen who represent most of today's new and young parents—that corporations should create economic value by addressing society's needs, and for their preference to do business with socially-responsible companies.
What Your Brand Can Do for Fathers, Families, and Organizations
The greatest challenge social service and other non-profit community organizations face is lack of funding to acquire resources and training for the families they serve. NFI itself is a non-profit organization and builds the capacity of these and other organizations across the nation, allowing you to make a major difference where it counts.
For Fathers and Families > Donating to NFI's general operations allows NFI to continue educating, equipping, and engaging society in the following ways:
- Promotion of importance of responsible fatherhood in the public space (i.e. from writing influential op-eds, blogging, social media, working with other organizations at the state, local, and national levels)
- Creation of free resources that NFI distributes to organizations, which organizations give to fathers and families to educate them about the important role fathers play in children's lives and that help fathers to be more involved, responsible, committed
- Creation of free resources that NFI distributes directly to fathers (i.e. blog posts; eBooks; eGuides; weekly e-newsletter; and tips via web, email, and social media)
- Free technical assistance to organizations (e.g. conversations via phone and email, educational and informative tips, and white papers)
- Free research for fathers, families, and community leaders to download
For Organizations > Donating to NFI can help distribute existing resources (low, medium, and high-intensity) to organizations that serve fathers and families in specific markets in the following ways, including:
- Help states standardize InsideOut Dad®, NFI's program for incarcerated fathers
- Provide fatherhood skill-building resources for reentry organizations/programs
- Help military dads stay involved with their children during deployment and reintegrate into their families upon return
- Help child welfare organizations and programs
- Help organizations and programs that conduct home visits (e.g. to new parents)
- Help maternal and child health organizations and programs
- Help substance abuse and mental health organizations and programs
- Help workforce development organizations and programs
Opportunities to Partner with National Fatherhood Initiative
Through cause marketing and corporate sponsorships, we offer several monthly and ongoing opportunities to align your brand with fathers and families that include:
- NFI's Fatherhood Awards (Military/Organization/General)
- NFI's FatherSOURCE Locator (Fatherhood Program Finder is here.)
- NFI's Double Duty Dad® Award and Guide
- NFI's Countdown to Growing Up™ > View the parenting tool here.
- NFI's web, email, The Father Factor blog and social media channels
Below are examples of brands that have shown fathers and families they care, and that it's good business to partner with NFI.
If you have a socially-responsible effort underway that is doing social good and helping your company's bottom line, talk with us about how a partnership might enhance that effort and make it even more effective.
brightpeak financial®
In 2014, National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) and brightpeak financial® launched a web-based campaign which included a series of financial blog posts with each post containing helpful material related to dads and money management. The campaign was a multi-week campaign that included web, email, and social media marketing with custom content created by brightpeak financial® and published orginally by NFI.
Key Partnership Elements:
NFI recieved great feeback from brightpeak financial® on this campaign that consisted of the following:
Customized financial content in a series of blog posts from brightpeak financial® and shared exclusively to NFI readers
NFI marketed the original blog content in its email and social media channels. brightpeak financial® received follow-up emails and hundreds of downloads from NFI readers as a result of the campaign. brightpeak financial® gave feedback speaking of the partnership saying, "NFI was invested from the start and help customized our content to fit their audience. NFI was easy to work with, creative with our content…and we would partner with them again."
fodada® > for the best dada in the world
NFI is proud to be partnered with fodada®, a socially responsible clothing line "for the best dada in the world". fodada's® goal is to provide quality fashions that dads can wear that recognize their important role as a father. fodada® uses the sales of their clothing line to fund no-cost programming important to dads and families.
Recently, fodada® launched the "fodada Color Beneficiary Initiative" through which they give back to select non-profits from customer purchases of certain "color lines". Further, fodada® created a brand-specific shirt for NFI in the color charcoal.
Key Partnership Elements:
- As a part of the Color Beneficiary agreement, NFI receives a portion of the proceeds from the sales of any fodada item in the color Charcoal. NFI also promotes the clothing line and partnership to inspire dads to be involved, responsible, and committed.
- fodada® created a custom 24/7 Dad® t-shirt on behalf of NFI for purchase in their online store, fodadawear.com. 24/7 Dad® is NFI's flagship fatherhood curriculum used by thousands of family service organizations across the nation, and the 24/7 Dad® t-shirt serves as a link to NFI's most popular skill-building brand. Facilitators of the program, father participants, and even kids of dads can show their pride in being associated with the 24/7 Dad® program and more generally, being a 24/ Dad. NFI will receive a portion of the proceeds for shirts sold.
20th Century Fox®/DreamWorks® "The Croods"
National Fatherhood Initiative partnered with 20th Century Fox® and DreamWorks® to promote the father-friendly film, The Croods. NFI built a customized landing page on its website, promoted the film in its weekly email, and wrote about the film's fatherhood themes on its blog, website, and social media channels. This custom content creation strategy was used to generate enthusiasm for the film as one that has something important (and entertaining) to say about fatherhood.
Key Partnership Elements:
NFI's social media and web-based outreach touches over 125,000 contacts per month, giving The Croods significant exposure during the weeks leading up to its release.
To celebrate the positive portrayal of fatherhood by the main character, Grug, NFI releaesd an official press release announcing the Fatherhood Award presentation nationally and NFI presented the animated character with our Fatherhood Award™ at a pre-screening of the film in New York City, in partnership with The Moms. NFI presented the award to the director of the film (as Grug could not be there in person). The event received significant social media exposure and photos were serviced to the media.
Dove® Men+Care > Dads Club™
National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) and Dove® Men+Care re-launched NFI's longstanding membership club, the Dads Club™, as a re-envisioned NFI/Dove® partnership. The club is now referred to as "Dads Club™, Made Possible by Dove® Men+Care," and the membership kit, which included:
- a co-branded t-shirt,
- new NFI fatherhood resources,
- and a bundle of Dove® Men+Care products.
The partnership was officially announced at the 2013 Dad 2.0 Summit in front of an audience of the country's most prominent bloggers and brands seeking to reach fathers. All fathers in attendance at the Summit were given complimentary Dad Club™ memberships, and encouraged to use the hashtag #DadsClub on Twitter throughout the Summit and beyond.
Key Partnership Elements:
Through their social media portals, NFI and Dove® Men+Care promoted the Dads Club™ as a way for dads to:
- connect to a group of like-minded dads
- support NFI's work (part of their membership fee is a tax-deductible donation to NFI, a 501(C)3 nonprofit)
- receive a members-only, monthly e-newsletter with fatherhood advice, member spotlights, and promotions from Dove® Men+Care.
- get exclusive, branded swag from Dove® Men+Care
Over the course of a year, NFI and Dove® engaged celebrities, athletes, and other VIPs by sending them complimentary Dads Club™ memberships and encouraging them to use their influence to inspire others to get involved.
Tide®/Downy® > #DadsWay
For Father's Day 2013, Tide® and Downy® launched a Twitter-based campaign in which every use of the hashtag #DadsWay resulted in a $1 donation to National Fatherhood Initiative. The hashtag itself was intended to reflect that dads do things differently – and that's ok!
The campaign was anchored by a national television spot featuring the #DadsWay hashtag in the commercial's end frame, and a voice-over stating that proceeds would benefit National Fatherhood Initiative. In addition, Tide®/Downy® recruited dad bloggers to use their social media influence to promote the campaign across blog and social media platforms. Each of the daddy bloggers wrote personal blog posts reflecting on what #DadsWay means to them, and then shared those thoughts and others on Twitter to generate impressions for Tide® and Downy® via the hashtag.
Key Partnership Elements:
NFI promoted the use of the #DadsWay hashtag throughout the duration of the campaign to raise awareness of the importance of involved, responsible, and committed fatherhood and as a simple way to support NFI's work. NFI also posted two personal blogs about NFI dads' fatherhood experiences, and a third promoting a #DadsWay Twitter party.
Honda® > #DadsDoingGood
In 2014, NFI and Honda® launched a YouTube, web, and social media campaign called Dads Doing Good, which included a series of videos featuring the Honda® Odyssey as dads conducted child-centered community service projects across the greater Los Angeles area. The campaign was a multi-week series that included video, web, email, and social media marketing with custom video content created by Life of Dad.
Key Partnership Elements:
NFI received great feedback from the communities involved in this campaign. The video series featured dads using the new Honda® Odyssey in many useful and versatile ways:
- Mobile Library > Featured the Honda® Odyssey as a mobile library. Dads loaded up the Odyssey with hundreds of books and surprised preschool children in their school's playground. After reading stories to the kids, hundreds of books were donated to a local Los Angeles school.
- Lemonade for Charity > Dads helped educate and serve a much-needed cause in your community by creating a lemonade stand where proceeds from the lemonade went to raise awareness for congenital heart defects.
- Little League Surprise > Dads use the 2014 Honda® Odyssey to remake a little league field by replacing the pitcher's mound, backstop, & batter's box with help from a contractor, coaches, & players.
- Surfing Sensation > Dads brought the Odyssey to the beach, where they help a volunteer group teach kids with cystic fibrosis how to surf. Dads helped one child take her first wave EVER!
- The New Drive-In Theater > Dads arrived at a film school and with help from two Odysseys, hosted an extraordinary movie screening to unveil the student films with popcorn, soda and the red-carpet treatment.
FedEx® > Daddy Packs
National Fatherhood Initiative partnered with Fedex® to promote responsible fatherhood. NFI asked "What do FedEx® and good fathers have in common?" They are reliable, trustworthy, available, and right on time for the most special of delivery of all!
NFI and Fedex® built the special "Daddy Pack" that included several of NFI's top products and resources and Fedex® promotional materials. This special partnership was promoted across all website, email, blog, and social media channels. This custom content creation strategy was used to inspire and engage dad with skill-building tools to help dad and family during the most exciting, scary and often stressful time of life—birth of a new baby.
Key Partnership Elements:
- Development of a unique, cobranded FedEx® package to hold select NFI brochures and resources to help new dads
- NFI's promotion and distribution channels provided significant exposure for Fedex through the distribution of thousands of Daddy Packs in hospitals, birthing centers as well as through national, regional, and community-based partners.
Nissan® > Innovation for Fatherhood
NFI and Nissan® partnered on the Innovation for Fatherhood campaign, providing fathers with practical tips and resources to help them get the most out of the family car. Through this cause marketing campaign, Nissan® demonstrated that it was the car brand that cared most about dads.
Jon Brancheau, Vice President of Nissan® Marketing, remarked about the partnership with NFI, "Nissan® recognizes the important role fathers play in the lives of their families…Being a parent is the most challenging and yet rewarding job on the planet. At Nissan®, our job is to support dads by designing and building vehicles that help meet their families' transportation needs in the most safe, efficient and stylish way."
Key Partnership Elements:
- Through a series of blog posts, the campaign focused on topics such as: guidelines for choosing the right car for the family, practical tips on maintenance and safety, and advice on making the most of family bonding time in the car.
- NFI created tremendous exposure for Nissan, bringing the Nissan® brand to its' own audience of fathers and families though multi-level media channels, including social media, web, email, and other content.
For more information related to how you can enter into a cause marketing campaign or corporate sponsorship effort with with National Fatherhood Initiative, please contact Ryan Sanders, Director, Marketing and Communications at 240-912-1289 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Steroid bill lightened in effort to gain support
WASHINGTON - Aiming for a Senate vote on steroid legislation this week, lawmakers eased the proposed penalties Tuesday, calling for a half-season suspension the first time an athlete tests positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
The bill, sponsored by Sens. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., and John McCain, R-Ariz., contains a one-season ban for a second steroid offense and a lifetime ban for a third. It would apply to Major League Baseball, the NFL, NBA, NHL and baseball's minor leagues.
Several bills that would standardize steroid rules across U.S. professional sports have been proposed in the House and Senate in recent months. Most - including the original version of the Senate measure - were based on the Olympic model: a two-year suspension for a first drug offense, a lifetime ban for a second.
Under current rules, a first failed drug test draws a 10-day ban in Major League Baseball (roughly 1/16th of a season), a 10-game ban in the NBA (about an eighth of a season), a four-game ban in the NFL (a quarter of a season), and a 20-game ban in the NHL (about a quarter of a season).
Kentucky AD says Brooks will be back
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kentucky football coach Rich Brooks will be back next season, but expectations for the program will be higher, Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart said Tuesday.
Barnhart met privately with Brooks on Monday night to inform the coach of his decision and met with team members Tuesday morning, after word already had leaked out to a handful of media outlets.
Brooks is in the third year of a five-year contract that pays him $750,000 a season. He is 8-23 at Kentucky, including a 3-18 record against Southeastern Conference schools. His career record, which also includes 18 seasons at Oregon, is 99-132-4.
Kentucky (2-6, 1-4 SEC) will visit Vanderbilt on Saturday.
Chattanooga players charged with gang rape
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Six Chattanooga football players were charged with raping a female student, a university spokesman said Tuesday.
The six named in the charges filed by the Hamilton County prosecutor are Muhammad Ahmad Abdus-Salaam, Lironnie Davis, DeJuan Payne, Cori Stukes, Terrence Thomas and Larry White, according to Chattanooga spokesman Chuck Cantrell.
The charges stem from what the woman said was a gang rape on Oct. 21 at the apartment of one of the players.
A police report said the woman told investigators she got drunk at a party and became separated from her friends. When the party began to break up about 2:30 a.m., she said she was taken to an apartment where seven to 10 males "began taking turns having sex with her."
Former NFL defensive back arrested
LOS ANGELES - Former NFL defensive back Darryll Lewis was arrested after leading police on a 30-minute chase that ended with five officers forcefully dragging him to the ground, authorities said Tuesday.
Lewis, 36, was arrested Monday for investigation of evading arrest, driving under the influence, possession of a controlled substance and resisting arrest. He was being held on $75,000 bail and was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.
California Highway Patrol officers attempted to stop Lewis, a 10-year NFL veteran, who was driving alone in a black pickup truck Monday afternoon. He was driving in the carpool lane and refused to pull over, CHP Officer Edmund Zorrilla said.
Pete Rose says son made 'small mistake'
CINCINNATI - Pete Rose said his son made a "small mistake," has taken responsibility for it and hopes to keep playing baseball.
Pete Rose Jr. pleaded guilty Monday in Tennessee to distributing GBL, a drug sometimes sold as a steroid alternative. He's scheduled to be sentenced in February and faces up to 24 months in federal prison.
His father returned to Cincinnati for a charity event Tuesday and played down the offense.
"I don't think Pete ran a red light or had a speeding ticket. That's the kind of kid he is," Rose Sr. said. "I wish people understood how small the mistake he made is."
Rose said his son, who turns 36 on Nov. 16, hopes to get back to playing baseball at some point. His son played for the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League last season.
AASU's Knuth honored
Armstrong Atlantic State middle hitter Traci Knuth was named the Peach Belt Conference's Volleyball Player of the Week, the league announced Monday.
Knuth hit .382 on the week, nearly scoring a triple-double in Friday's 3-1 win over USC Upstate. Knuth collected 15 kills, 10 blocks and eight digs.
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My husband and I have been working on our boys name list. We have a small list of favorites and would love to hear your thoughts on them. We are also open to suggestions! My husband prefers names that don't start with a vowel and we both lean towards names that are less popular but not too uncommon. Our last name is 3 syllables, starts with "Th" and ends in "en." Okay here is our list:
Thank you for your thoughts and suggestions!
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I really like most of these! Marshall and Lincoln are both on my boys list and Harrison jumps on and off it. Leonardo 'Leo' is also on my list as well. I don't really like Maximus, it just seems too...grand for a little boy to carry, but also because I like Maksim better.
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Support Group for High Risk NT Results with NO further invasive testing ~ #8
Started by lilymurray , Oct 07 2010 02:19 PM
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Posted 07 October 2010 - 02:19 PM
New thread time ladies
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Posted 11 October 2010 - 12:44 PM
Mrs Peel - 18 week scan was good, heart looked good and there were no other issues at that stage. They will not reduce my risk though and are keeping me at the specialist unit and I will have another scan at 28 weeks (just under three weeks now) to make sure my placenta is still doing the right thing. I am hoping that they will reduce my risk otherwise I will be limited as to where I can birth. Thanks for asking after me.
Posted 15 October 2010 - 02:42 PM
Hi Bubble 07,
All the best for the scan next week. I hope your risk can be reduced, so you can birth where you wish.
Posted 25 February 2011 - 11:56 AM
Just bumping this thread up to see how you are each going and if you are still chatting here.
Posted 31 March 2011 - 07:21 PM
Hi - this group is really quiet and I'm wondering if there is anyone else out there who has elected no further invasive testing and is currently waiting for their baby to arrive.
I have 9 ish weeks to go and elected no further invasive testing after getting a 1:115 result for T13 and T18. I've had 2 morphology scans which don't show anything unusual but now I'm well over 1/2 way I am starting to think about the what ifs.
I have been in the other high risk results group but everyone there seems to opt for amnio or cvs. I feel like I have the only dr who hasn't recommended further testing.
Posted 04 April 2011 - 07:33 PM
Hi Beetbix!
Just found this group.
Our bub was given a 1:146 chance of down syndrome. We declined the amnio as we knew we would keep bubs no matter what.
My NF was normal, but my bloods came back with low pappa. I was told this over the phone by someone at the ultrasound clinic, but as I was busy trying to take in the info I neglected to ask what other factors can cause this. He did say there were other reasons for it, but didn't say what.
I have since had two appointments with a midwife and she couldn't answer this so as my pregnancy is now deemed 'high risk' I have to be under direct care of an obstetrician (I'm in public system). I have the first appt with this ob next week and can't wait to bombard her with questions!
I have found it very hard to deal with, mainly because every time I have a medical appt they have to go on about the high risk and that we 'declined amnio' it's the first thing written on my yellow card. I am enjoying this pregnancy so long as I keep away from the medical profession, otherwise I have left each appt in tears and worried about further testing and so on. I wish I had never had the test, I just assumed it was what everyone did. Now I am researching everything and before agreeing to anything, finding out what outcomes are possible and where they may lead. We are booked for a cardio scan at 24 wks despite the anomoly scan all coming up perfect. So I will discuss this as well with ob next week and decide if we really need to have scan.
I'm not worried about our little one having ds, I am more concerned with whether or not this will mean invasive testing, staff pushing for different outcomes to what I want (natural birth, b/feeding etc).
All I feel right now is regret for having the test in the first place and defensiveness/protectiveness of my bub, body and labour.
Gosh, what a babble! But as mentioned, only just found group and has been nice to get it all out.
Posted 08 April 2011 - 11:13 AM
Hi Greenthumbs - I'm sorry you fit this group . . . . .but, happy that I have someone to chat to in this group.
I hope if you decide on a cardio scan it goes well. I am happy to have all the recommended scans as we want to know what is happening.
I have had 2 morphology scans which show nothing untoward, these have put my mind a little more at rest.
Did your medical advisors push you for an amnio? I guess we are lucky in that my obs is on board with our decision and didn't, in our case, recommend an amnio. But, one of the factors for us was that we don't get pg easily (ICSI baby) and given my age we weren't willing to risk miscarriage and then possibly take ages to get pg again.
Apparently I had weird blood results which gave me the high risk for T13 and T18 and yet low risk for DS.
I have it stuck on my card that I am high risk for T13 and T18 but since I only see my obs I'm not getting any comments about it. I have my pre-admission appointment in a few weeks so I will tell you if I get any weird vibe from the midwife then!
Posted 09 April 2011 - 09:26 PM
Hi Beetbix
It is great to chat with someone who understands!
I have my first appt with the ob on Tuesday so am looking forward to asking millions of questions. I am happy to have the cardio scan at this point as I'm sure everything will be fine and it will hopefully make the doctors lay off.
My GP I only told over the phone about the high risk and she just said my attitude was great about it. The midwife didn't hound about the amnio, just made absolutely sure I was sure. She had a student with her during the appt so had to explain it all to her as well, why some people choose to have an amnio and why some don't etc. Made me feel like I had to justify why we decided not to as it seems that most people do these days. At each appt so far it is brought up, whether it's the midwife, the sonographer or the admin staff.
It will be interesting to speak with the ob and see what her deal is. I've been told she is very particular (not sure what this could entail) so I'm just hoping at this point I can at least explain how awful these visits are making me feel and how I feel like no-one is remembering that I am growing a baby, not a 'high risk'. Also to find out what the 'high risk' status means for our care and labour etc.
I agree that the morphology scans made us feel better too, just getting that confirmation that all looks normal was nice.
Let me know how your appt with midwife goes!
Posted 16 April 2011 - 10:25 AM
Hi Beetbix
I had my appt with ob on Tuesday. Unfortunately she wasn't in so I saw a registrar (?) instead. She was lovely.
We went over the scans and they are all normal. I asked what other things can cause a low papp-a blood result. She said that it can indicate the bubs will be small, therefore as bubs with down syndrome are often smaller in weight, this can be an indication so they just keep closer eye on bubs growth with extra scans and also they do a cardiac scan to make sure all is growing normally.
Seeing as my bump is all growing normally I asked if the cardiac scan comes back normal, could I be down graded to normal risk. But unfortunately once that tag is there, that's it.
But provided there are no heart issues, there is not really any reason (provided no other issues crop up) for the delivery to be anything other than normal.
I'm feeling a lot less anxious after that appointment. I'm just looking on it as a plus that I get extra scans to see bubs
Hope all is going well with you - not long now is it? Are you getting nervous / excited?
Posted 02 June 2011 - 07:06 PM
Hi Greenthumbs - just to let you know I had a healthy baby boy last week! He is on the scrawny side and apparently my placenta didn't look that good when it came out but he is healthy which is the main thing and a huge relief.
I wish you all the best for your pg and hope that you will keep me updated on your news. I will keep lurking this thread for news.
Posted 15 July 2011 - 12:41 AM
hi i am glad i have found this page i am 12 weeks and just been told my blood test put my baby at high risk of 1 in 245, dr gave no other info so hubby and i are going on monday to see her she was talking about having to have more tests but we said no, we will have all the scans in the world but nothing to rick our bub, everyone we told wants us to have the other tests so its great to know we are not alone in our thoughts
Posted 19 July 2011 - 02:12 PM
this seems a loney group but thought I'd share my NT results! after getting good results on the scan my bloods have pushed my ratio to 1:86 for ds WOW! NT measurement was 2.2 papp-a 0.51 B-Hcg 1.23 which within normal limits but they like the bloods around the same level. I'm not planning on having CVS or amino at the moment will wait and see what the 19 wk scan shows up then I can do amnio if I want.
Familyx5 do you know want increased your risk factor?
Edited by custardjo, 19 July 2011 - 02:13 PM.
Posted 15 September 2011 - 07:53 PM
Anyone reading this thread? I would love to share with others like us who won't do further testing.. Our twins are due March 1st and twin 2 had a DS risk of 1:15 after nucheal fold of 5.2 mm and two cystic hygroma's
Posted 15 September 2011 - 08:37 PM
I posted in the other group because there were no posts here since July, but yes we are high risk (1 in 207, at age 23) and the long 7 week wait until the next scan. Worsened last night when I actually got the paper results of the scan - scan was great, but the bloods way out. My hCG was 6 MoM, haven't seen any higher than 4 with google, so quite confused.
My nuchal fold was only 2.1 though, so think we are a bit different there. What are the cysts you mentioned?
Posted 11 October 2011 - 07:28 PM
Well good news today. We had out 20 week morphology scan and the cyst have gone. This is rare but excellent. It means the 5.2mm NT measurement might not be real IYKWIM - they were measuring the cyst and therefore can't say if there was an abnormal reading or not. Meanwhile both babies heart, brain and nose measurements were perfect so no physical signs that they can detect of any issues - so things are starting to look better.
Posted 26 October 2011 - 09:20 PM
Hi everyone ( if there is still anyone posting in here)
I am due in April, have a 1 in 78 risk for trisomy 18, and my partner and I have decided to not go through with any further testing. I am 28 so never really expected to have such a high risk with this test, but we know termination is not an option for us, so we do not want to put a potentially healthy baby at risk of miscarriage.
Would love to chat to others who are also waiting out the pregnancy to find out either way, and holding out hope that each scan is positive.
Posted 17 January 2012 - 03:55 PM
Thanks everyone for sharing your stories - they are really helping me through a difficult time right now.
I am 40 and will be 41 in July when my 2nd bub is due. This wasn't a planned pregnancy and with my son being almost 10 and my husband's kids being 19 and 21, he has had a hard time coming to grips with this pregnancy.
I was diagnosed with Graves Disease (hyperthyroidism) at 7 weeks pregnant, but this is now being controlled with bub safe medication by my lovely endocrinologist and I am feeling so much better.
I just had my 12 week scan last Friday and got some scary results re: DS - it's 1:5, with a Nuchal fold of 2.0 mm, BhCG of 4.01 and my PAPP-A of 0.25.
My hubby is freaking out about the DS of 1:5, and the obstetrician (who I only met today and don't like much at all) is pressuring me into an amniocentesis. He is also completely unsupportive of my choice for a home birth with this bub after a horrendous experience giving birth to my 1st child.
This is my last chance for another baby and I don't even want to take the smallest risk of losing her/him. While I hope (and feel) that our bub is fine, I could deal with DS, but my hubby is struggling. However, I don't want to feel pressured into an amniocentesis that I don't want just because he is having a hard time.
Any help anyone can offer would be gratefully accepted. Good luck to everyone out there dealing with pregnancy problems
Posted 19 February 2012 - 09:02 PM
Here is an update for anyone who might read through this thread. We delivered our twins on 16/2 and twin 1 was a healthy 3kg exactly. Twin 2 the one that had two cystic hygromas that disappeared at 20 weeks and showed no signs of DS on scans and not heart problems and a good size on scans was also born. She hdoes have DS (we had a 1 in 15 chance) she also has a major heart defect that will require two open heart surgeries and her weight was 1.4kgs (a month before she was born her scan said she weighted 2kg!). We are very happy to have our beautiful twins with us and now we are starting on the journey as to what support there is out there for us. good luck to you all and please feel free to PM should you be going down this path yourself or have any questions.
Posted 25 February 2012 - 09:22 AM
Not sure if this groups is still very active, but I just wanted to say that is anyone wanted to chat about having a baby with down syndrome, please feel free to pm me.
My daughter was born two and a half years ago with Ds, and I'm more that happy share any info that might help someone.
Posted 26 February 2012 - 05:29 PM
Will copy my post from other Hi Risk NT group in here as we didn't have an amnio:
Hi everyone just thought I would update to give hope to those with hugely abnormal blood results.
I am 24 (was 23 when I was 12wks along) so from my age should have had a 1:1100 risk of down syndrome. My NT scan itself looked perfect, but my bloods were through the roof. The HcG was 6.01 MoM, and I think the Pappa was 0.83. Those blood results put me at a 1:207 risk for DS. We decided not to do the amnio, but at that time I was unaware at how huge the hcg was up.
Our baby girl was born on Thursday and has does not have down syndrome. We had a chromosomal blood test done just after birth for our peace of mind (get the results back tomorrow).
I hope that in sharing this it can help some of you with high blood results have some hope that their bubs will be fine and healthy when born.
Posted 02 May 2012 - 06:19 PM
I'm not sure how active this group is, but I wanted to post here.
I'm 13 weeks pregnant today with my third child. This pregnancy followed two miscarriages. I had my nuchal translucency scan on Friday and the NT measurement was 4mm. No one talked to me after the scan, and I was told the blood test results would take a week. I knew the 4mm measurement was worrying and spent the weekend Dr Googling, freaking out, and bursting into tears.
The blood test results came back on Monday:
1:46 for T21
1:259 for T18
Low risk for T13
Based on my age and the NT measurement I had been expecting a higher risk, but my blood test results were good and bumped the numbers up a bit.
My husband and I agree that if the baby has Down syndrome we will continue with the pregnancy. Given that and the (in my view, anyway) low risk of T18, we don't want to risk another miscarriage by doing invasive testing.
I saw my OB today. The appointment went well. I'd heard that some doctors can be pushy about having invasive tests, but ours wasn't at all. He answered my long list of questions and his answers largely confirmed what Dr Google had told me, and didn't change our views of the next steps we'd like to take. He's lodged paperwork for us with the Fetal Medicine Unit at Canberra Hospital. They'll call soon and we'll make an appointment to go in and talk to them.
Our plan is to talk to the FMU people, tell them we don't want to do invasive testing at this stage, and talk about the next steps (extra scans, etc).
I'm feeling a lot better now that we have a rough idea of what will happen next. I can live with the uncertainty a lot better than with the possibility of a potentially avoidable miscarriage.
I let my boss know what was going on this morning and she has been awesome. She told me to take time out or time off if I need to, and to let her know if my workload is too much under the circumstances. I'm glad I'm in this job with this boss at the moment.
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This group seems pretty quiet at the moment, but I'll post my update here as well as in the other one:
Just back from our FMU appointment. It went really well. We had another scan and the baby is looking great - measuring on track or a little ahead, everything looking as it should at 14 weeks. The nuchal measurement has reduced from 4mm to 2.4mm, also a good sign. We'll have a detailed anatomy scan at 18 weeks. They weren't pushy about testing at all, but gave us the option of an amnio at 35ish weeks, when the only risk would be a slight one of premature labour. The benefit of knowing at that point would be that if the baby did have Down syndrome I could give birth at the major hospital, which would be better equipped for that, rather than the smaller one closer to home. Pretty sure we'll do the amnio then. We're feeling much better after the reassuring scan.
I was telling my husband "Now we can find out the sex at 18 weeks instead of 20" and the ultrasound operator asked if we wanted to find out now. I thought they couldn't tell for sure at 14 weeks, but they could! Our third baby is definitely going to be a ... BOY! It's cool to know so early!
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Published: Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 6:30 a.m.
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Aultman Hospital's free care program has helped many women get mammograms at no charge. That is why the funding and support from Yoplait and the American Cancer Society is so important to the cause. Aultman Hospital holds two free cancer screening days a year to provide free mammograms and other cancer screenings. They advertise to local free and low-income clinics first.
Several breast lumps have been found on these screening days. One woman in particular was very anxious about her results. Because she was uninsured, she was reluctant to proceed with testing. Through her relationship with The Breast and Cervical Cancer Project, Aultman Hospital was able to enroll her and complete her testing. She had breast cancer and was very nervous about her diagnosis. Erin guided her through the process to ease her anxiety and offered financial assistance. The woman would not have had a mammogram had it not been for the free screening day.
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Understanding Poverty Measures and the Call to Update Them
Kolesnikova, Natalia, Liu, Yang, Regional Economist
Poverty means different things in different regions. The World Bank often defines living on less than $2 per day per person as the main poverty indicator in developing countries.1 The European Union considers 60 percent of the national median disposable income after social transfers as the threshold of being at risk for poverty.2
In the United States, individuals whose family income is less than the official poverty threshold are in poverty. The threshold itself depends on the size of the family, as well as the number of those in the family who are under 18 or are at least 65. For example, in 2010 a family of two adults with two children under 18 was living in poverty if its annual income was below $22,113; a family of four adults was living in poverty if its annual income was below $22,491.
As the table shows, the poverty rate in the United States rose to 15.3 percent in 2010, up 4 percentage points from a decade earlier.3 In the Eighth Federal Reserve District, which is served by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, all seven states and major metropolitan areas saw a similar trend-the poverty rate rose between 3.6 percentage points and 6.5 percentage points from 2000 to 2010. The increase was even bigger for the population under 18 years old.
Does the increase in the poverty rate mean more Americans fall short of a desired standard of living? Or does the increase mean more people lack the resources necessary for basic needs? To be able to answer these questions, we need a better understanding of poverty threshold.
History of U.S. Poverty Gauges
The official U.S. poverty measures are based on studies conducted by Social Security Administration economist Mollie Orshansky. In the 1960s, Orshansky created a poverty threshold using the cost of the Department of Agriculture's economical food plan. Orshansky assumed that U.S. families spent a third of their income on food and, thus, she used three as the multiplier to obtain the poverty threshold. It indicates the minimal monetary income required to pay for basic needs. If a family's total pretax monetary income is below the poverty threshold, then the family has inadequate resources for day-to-day necessities; every member in the family is considered in poverty.
In 1969, the U.S. government adopted this poverty threshold as the official statistical definition of poverty. The poverty threshold is used, for example, to estimate the number of Americans living in poverty. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services uses a somewhat simplified version of Orshansky's poverty threshold as the official poverty guidelines.4 The poverty guidelines are commonly used for government administrative purposes, such as determining the eligibility for public assistance programs.
Limits of the Official Measures
For decades, the poverty measures have been criticized for their limitations. Complaints include that these measures are outdated, provide incomplete information and are not location-specific.
In addition, the U.S. economy has changed significantly since the 1960s, and the standard of living has been substantially improved. Yet the methodology behind the poverty threshold has remained unchanged. The 1960s economical food plan was "designed for temporary and emergency use when funds are low." 5 The nutrition offered by this plan no longer reflects what is considered to be adequate nutrition for Americans in the 2010s. As American families spend a much smaller portion (about one-eighth) of their income on food than they did 45 years ago, Orshansky's assumption and multiplier of three used for calculating the poverty threshold also have become outdated.6
The fact that the poverty threshold does not take into account other living costs and social benefits also raises some concerns. Poor families spend a substantial portion of income on clothing, shelter, utilities and out-of-pocket medical expenses. The official poverty measures are likely underestimating the true poverty level because they do not reflect such costs. …


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"Photographers tend not to photograph what they can't see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we're going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?"
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