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baby update
So yesterday, my OB office calls while I am brushing my teeth and goes to voicemail before I can get to it. I am also running late and have to scoot out the door to work. So I get the message when I get home at lunch time and its from my OB about my labwork on Thursday. (Which he told me that he wouldn't call me about unless something came back way off).
I call back, get his RN's voicemail and ask them to call my cell phone. She calls me at home, asks why he called me, and I tell her. She looks at my lab results and says she doesn't see anything, but she'll have him call me.
He calls me this morning and tells me that the genetics screen that the ran on me shows I am carrier for Cystic Fibrosis. No one in my family has CF (but according to my OB 1 in 27 people are carriers). Now DH has to have blood work done to test him to see if he is a carrier. If he is negative, then the worst case scenario is that the baby would be a carrier, like me. If he is positive, then we have a 1 in 4 chance that the baby will have CF. DH said he looked at it today, and only 4% of caucasian males are carriers, so its unlikely that he is a carrier.
So all that to ask you girls to say a quick little prayer for us. I pick up a lab slip for DH at my next appointment and then we go from there.
Re: baby update
I am sure you will be fine. The chances are so slim. But good for you for getting tested.
I know how scary it can be, though. I had to have extra testing and retesting done to make sure that I wasn't a carrier for Fragile X. I was freaking out. I even pushed my mom to ask my sister to test her kids. But, everything turned out ok.
Oh Breanne... T&P to you and DH that he's not a carrier... glad you got tested so you might have an idea...
Tons of T&P to you!
The chances are SOOOO slim that your DH is even a carrier. And even if he his, the chances are still slim that anything would come of it. BUT. Worst case scenario, CF is VERY livable these days. I work with a nurse who just turned 30 and has CF and you wouldn't know it except she has to avoid any one with an upper resp infection.
Lots of T&P though still!
Thanks girls!
Rachel, I know the chances are low and that its a very treatable disease. It scares me way less than Downs or another trisomy. For me it was more that he called to discuss (after he told me that he wouldn't call unless it was bad news) and I had to wait ~24 hours to find out, which was the most stressful part for me. I'm not normally this anxious, but I've discovered that pregnancy is making me crazy. And not in a good way.
Yes, waiting is the worst. Especially when they said that they wouldn't call if it's fine and then called. Lots of T's and P's and hopefully the results come back the way you wanted!