FISH Results
February 5th, 2007 at 9:58 pm (Pregnancy)
Today we went to the OB and he advised that the preliminary (FISH) results for the amnio came back ok, meaning that they found no abnormalities (so far) in Chromosomes 13, 18 or 21 - which for us is good.
There is still a chance the remaining results of the amnio may come back unfavourably, but we have decided that for us, the initial results are good enough for us to get on with our lives and get back to enjoying this pregnancy.
We also visited a Genetic Counsellor and a Geneticist who went through all the things that we have been told. They asked us stacks of questions, about our feelings, our intentions and of course a pretty detailed family medical history. Obviously they were going to be there is we had to make the BIG decision of whether to terminate our pregnancy or not.
He still has a few things that will cause some minor hiccups in his life, especially in the first year and there maybe some other issues that we won’t know about until he is born.
Apart from that we have decided to call him Christopher Steven and look forward to the joys of mother/fatherhood at the end of May.