The Initial Results

On Monday, I got a call from the specialists office with the "Rapid Results" back. Apparently just the "Rapid Results" come back in three days - the results for Downs, Tri 18 and Tri 13.  To my surprise, she said they all came back negative.  But they still had to look at the other 46 chromosomes and this will take up to 10 days. 

I called Stuart right away to let him know and to help me process what this means.  We were so prepared for Tri 18, that it came as a shock that it was negative for Tri AND Downs. I told him I didn't know if that was good news and he said that it was - for now and that it is okay to have hope.  But we are also being very realistic.  We also found out the gender of the baby, but decided to wait to share that with anyone until we told the kids - maybe even after the rest of the results come back.

The doctor did say that while he was leaning towards Tri or severe Downs, that it could be anything: a syndrome that we can't test for, a virus or sickness like toxoplasmosis.  It could also be one of MANY other chromosomal disorders, just ones that are not as common as what he was looking for.

We have a ton of questions running through our minds and I am very impatiently waiting on the rest of the results.  I keep thinking - there has to be something we can do now.  What if this baby needs help and we are wasting time?  Is there something I should be doing - diet, exercise, bed rest....anything?? I know that we will just be told we need to wait on the rest of the results, but what if they are all negative and it is not a chromosomal issue?  Then we will have to wait on further testing and explore so many more options.  There is nothing worse than the feeling of helplessness when it comes to your children.

So here we are, back to waiting with every possible thought and scenario running through our heads.  In the meantime, we have so many people praying for us that we have a glimmer of hope for a miracle.  I know that the baby is still okay because I do sporadically feel him/her move and that gets me through each day.