One Hurdle Done
Well we are about to complete our first trimester as I enter in my 13th week.... AMAZING.
I had my regular obgyn appointment today and our little was looking adorable, heart beating, all snuggly in there. I cannot wait to cradle this life in my arms.
My nuchal screening results all came back normal. Relief.
Now the question is do I do the amniocentesis? I am turning 35 in three weeks and my doctor is leaving it up to me. He did say the amnio is definitive (I think the nuchal screening is about 93% accurate). We are leaning towards doing the amnio, but that half percent rate of miscarriage is scaring me. After all this work, and how far we've come, do I risk it? Even if it's a half percent??? Ugh. Decisions... I am thinking of speaking to my mom's obgyn who is a high risk doctor and see what he says. If my nuchal screening came back normal than maybe that's good enough? But do I need that piece of mind that everything is normal from the amnio? We will decide by Monday. It would be done in 3-4 weeks. Yowza.
But for now the doctor said we are out of the danger zone and we will start to share the news in the coming weeks. I still want to wait till I'm in the middle of my 4th month. It's like I want to tell everyone but then I get too nervous about sharing it-- as if I am jinxing it.
I guess we enjoy this for now and take each day as it comes.
Thank you G-d for keeping our little healthy and strong and growing...
I had my regular obgyn appointment today and our little was looking adorable, heart beating, all snuggly in there. I cannot wait to cradle this life in my arms.
My nuchal screening results all came back normal. Relief.
Now the question is do I do the amniocentesis? I am turning 35 in three weeks and my doctor is leaving it up to me. He did say the amnio is definitive (I think the nuchal screening is about 93% accurate). We are leaning towards doing the amnio, but that half percent rate of miscarriage is scaring me. After all this work, and how far we've come, do I risk it? Even if it's a half percent??? Ugh. Decisions... I am thinking of speaking to my mom's obgyn who is a high risk doctor and see what he says. If my nuchal screening came back normal than maybe that's good enough? But do I need that piece of mind that everything is normal from the amnio? We will decide by Monday. It would be done in 3-4 weeks. Yowza.
But for now the doctor said we are out of the danger zone and we will start to share the news in the coming weeks. I still want to wait till I'm in the middle of my 4th month. It's like I want to tell everyone but then I get too nervous about sharing it-- as if I am jinxing it.
I guess we enjoy this for now and take each day as it comes.
Thank you G-d for keeping our little healthy and strong and growing...
posted by Here I am @ 7:22 AM
4 Comments:
At 8:24 AM ,
Secret D said...
Wow! Times seems to be flying, I can't believe you are in your 13th week already. I can totally understand your fear at having the test, it is a tough call, I'm not sure what I would do so not much help I'm afraid.
At 11:05 AM ,
Dr. Grumbles said...
Congrats on making it this far!
At 6:49 AM ,
Anonymous said...
Would the test results change anything? Probably not...
Just enjoy - and start posting those increasing bump photos soon :)
At 8:00 AM ,
Pattycake said...
Deciding whether to do the amnio is a really really hard decision. One way you could look at it is stictly by the math. If risk of miscarriage is 1 in 300 for the amnio and let say your nuchal risk for trisomy 21 is 1 in 500 than you potentially have a higher risk of having a miscarriage than you do for having a chromosonal abnormality. For us it was 1 in 300 miscarriage versus 1 in 25 trismoy 21 so we eventually had the amnio.
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