They typically have many serious health problems and physical defects, including: The risk of having a child with trisomy 18 increases with the age of the mother, though women of any age can have ...

Trisomy 18 typically results in life-threatening complications ... and Kimberly later read in Georgia's medical records that her newborn was at risk of heart failure. Kimberly pressed for genetic ...

Risk grows with maternal age, though it can occur at any time. Palmer said that at 25 years old “there is about a 1:2200 chance of having a baby with trisomy 18 detected early in pregnancy ...

Maternal age: Women who are older than the age of 35 have an increased risk of having a child with trisomy 18. This is because as women age, there is a greater chance that the cells in her eggs will ...

She's still sweet — and a little bit sassy — and a rare survivor living with a life-threatening genetic condition known as trisomy 18 in which ... her newborn was at risk of heart failure.