January 29th, 2008
I got the blood test portion of our NT screening back today and they were excellent!
Prior to testing, my risk for having a baby with Down’s was 1/307. After the scan, its is only now 1/6000.
For Trisomy 13 & 18 (which is often fatal for the baby) my risk prior to testing was 1/524, but [...]
January 25th, 2008
The NT scan was absolutely amazing.. completely surreal that there is a little baby growing inside me. And unlike my last two ultrasounds where it was just a blob with a heartbeat, becoming-baby actually looks like a mini baby - fingers, toes, face, arms legs and everything!
The baby was moving around so much, waving, kicking, [...]
January 22nd, 2008
This weekend I had an appointment with my local quest labs to get the “Ashkenazi Jewish” panel of genetic screening done. The fact that I am a full blooded Jew and that Jeff is 1/4 Jew necessitates all the extra screening. Apparently the chosen people are also chosen for a few more diseases than the [...]
read more...January 17th, 2008
At 10 weeks and 3 days I met with the OB for the first time. I hadn’t been to this practice before, I picked them from the list that delivers at the better of the two local hospitals and then randomly picked her because her credentials seemed to be the best. Dr K. my RE [...]
read more...November 14th, 2007
What’s that? That, my friends, is the star of the reproductive show. Uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries all lit up courtesy of the radiological die inserted through a catheter into my cervix and the test known as the Hysterosalpingogram (HSG for short) also known as Painful Procedure from Hell.
But, much to my absolute shock, it didn’t [...]