They called and moved my appt up a week so WIll and I met with the genetic counsler this morning. Its a very depressing appointment! Basically at my age (35) I have a 1/200 chance of having a baby with Downs. This is soley based on age. Neither WIll or I have any genetic "issues" in our families. What it boils down to is this, they won't do CVS on identical twins unless I drive an hour to a hospital in down town detroit because the procedure is difficult. They can do CVS at this other hospital between 10-12 weeks. It will ONLY show a genectic disorder like Downs, not any of the spinabifida (sp?) disorders. The CVS is done similiar to amnio but they are taking out a piece of the placentato test instead of the amnioctic fluid. If we wait to do amnio, it can't be done until at least the 16th week. Either test takes 2 weeks for the results. So, if amnio showed a problem, I would be 18 weeks MINIMUM. At which time, if I decided to terminate one or both of the babies, they would give them a solution to stop there hearts and then induce labor and make me deliver my dead babies. Umm, no. Don't think I could do that at all.
The amnio itself has the same chance of causing me to miscarry from the procedure, than the chance of my baby actually having something wrong. So, as it stands right this second, I don't think I'll be doing any of the genetic testing.
I'm feeling pretty rough. I spent a lot of time on the couch this weekend. I did get to Motherhood and bought a few pairs of pants and a couple fo long sleeve t-shirt things that were on sale. The maternity pants are so much more comfortable then my regular pants! I'm already starting to get VERY thick in the middle and stick out a bit! I read that the women carrying twins will measure at 28 weeks as big as a women carrying a single baby at 40 weeks!! I'm going to be a house!! LOL!!!
So, now we go in tomorrow for the high definition ultrasound and than hopefully I can get in to see the high risk dr's. I'm a bit frustrated because the RE won't really discus anything pregnancy related right now because that isn't her job. The regular obgyns don't want to take me because I'm too high risk and the high risk dr's are dragging there feet about letting me into there practice! Very, very frustrating!! If I don't have an actual doctor for the pregnancy by the end of the week, I'm going to have to start getting nasty!
Ok, I just had a call from Rachel and she had her baby! Everything is good, she asked me to post details for her so I'm going to start another thread for her!!! YAY!!
-------------------- Taking it one day at a time.....
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Re: Had genetic counslers appt today
