Here is the ultrasound picture taken January 8th 2007We haven't been good at blogging all the little details over the past few weeks - time to catch up! C went in for the First Trimester Screen on January 8th. Our little one put on quite a show. Bouncing around and stretching, h/she had plenty of room and looked very happy. The nuchal fold measurement was 1.2mm which is well within the normal range for babies measuring 12w3d as ours was that day.
A week later we had the results of the bloodwork back and these were not so good. The papp-a level was around 0.43 iu/L and hcg somewhere around 5.8 iu/L. In English, that means the papp-a level was lower than average (1) and hcg almost 6x more than average (1). When something like this happens, they suggest you're in a higher risk category for a chromosomal abnormality, and this was what we were told. We were told that we have a 1/177 chance of having a child with Downs Syndrome. Neither of us believe that this baby has DS, but we will be having an amniocentisis tomorrow anyhow because we would like to be prepared.
It was not fun getting this news and we had a pretty terrible week trying to deal with it until meeting with the genetic counsellor to "interpret" these results. Technically, we have a 0.5% chance of having a baby with Downs Syndrome. That doesn't sound so bad, does it? Again, neither of our maternal instincts suggest that anything is wrong with this baby. No ultrasounds have shown any abnormalities to date and the heartrate has been consistently strong.
Today we met with our midwife and found the heartbeat easily. "Swish..swish..swish..swish.." measuring about 160bpm. It's such a comforting sound.
C says: swish swish swish swish
S says: swish swish!!
S says: :)
C says: hehe
S says: loud and clear
C says: it's a good baby
S says: it sure is
S says: It was saying "Moms.. hear me!!! I'm here!
C says: and it really did jump over to the left side
S says: yes it did
S says: :)
(Conversation after returning from our midwife this morning)
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