April 18th, 2008
I haven’t posted much this week because I’ve been running around between doctors appointments.
About 2-3 weeks ago, I had a really bad sore throat. I thought I was getting the flu and was grateful that I wasn’t in my…
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March 18th, 2008
I can’t believe than in about 18 hours we will finally know if we are having a boy or a girl! As usual before ultrasounds, I am nervous that we will discover something is wrong, and I am quite sure I…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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