Thursday, December 31, 2009

16 weeks

The stand out thing about my 2009 was that I missed it. It passed in one, long, blurry moment. I barely noticed the seasons. Every waking moment was about IVF. I'm sure many know what I mean.
I realized today that I didn't really post the final results of our nuchal translucency scan which I received about 2 weeks ago. They are disturbing in restrospect not because of my results, which are "phenomenal" per Jill the geneticist (yay!), but because of what my basic odds were before the tests.

Apparently, a woman my age (33 years) has a standard 1:430 chance of having a child with Downs Syndrome (trisomy 21). Seems like a low risk right? After my test, our risk is 1:8,041. Holy cow, it was what before?! The basic trisomy 13 and trisomy 18 risk is 1: 727, sounds okay! After more thorough testing, our risk plummeted to 1: 14,521. This just seems amazing to me. I wish they could test for more genetic stuff, because while this is great, there are so many other syndromes.

We have 12 days to go before we learn the genders of the babies and I'm getting really antsy. I have not purchased the pee in a cup gender test but I did gaze upon it the other day, highly tempted. Then I put it down and bought some super cute gender-neutral froggy sleepers instead.

I got a couple of excellent books that I want to talk about next week. Right now the 30 rock marathon is on and I just have to focus on that. I love that show.


3 comments:

  1. Wow! Those are great NT scan results!

    Doubt we will do the gender test kit, although waiting another MONTH is kind of torture! :)

    I researched strollers and am now thinking that maybe a $700 one isn't as crazy as I'd thought! Did you pick a side by side or a front/back?

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  2. One big blur is right. The good thing is that you have success! It's going to be a good year for you! Happy New Year!

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  3. PJ: We picked a front/back stroller after much agonizing. The clincher was no inflatable wheels.

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