Baby Update

Today the phone rang and my genetic counselor was calling to give me my first trimester blood results. She sounded sad and sighed as she gave me the results.

"Sorry to have to give you the disappointing news, but your blood tests came back positive for Down Syndrome. You now have a 1 in 5 chance of your child having the syndrome. I would recommend that we move your Amnio forward sooner to January 5th. Is that ok with you?"

"So you're telling me that I have an 80% chance that everything is alright and normal?"

"I think that's a positive way to think about it. Sigh"

Once I started crying, she essentially hung up on me. She is about 25 years old and doesn't know how to handle these scenarios. I needed someone giving me the news, to focus on the positive, but she was incapable of giving me that.

So I feel like I'm falling down a well and that Christmas is ruined for me. The joy I was feeling over this pregnancy has been sucked right out of me. Now when I go to the bathroom, I'm almost praying for blood. Breathe, Gina, breathe!