Genetic Counseling Appointment

So....we had our Genetic Counseling appointment at the Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic (MFM) @ Rockford Memorial Hospital yesterday @ 2:30 p.m. What a waste of time!!!!!!!!! We spent over 2 hours discussing the "possibilities" of our child having what I had. Well, she gave us a 5% chance that the baby will have Trachea Esophageal Fistual (TE Fistula). That risk is not high enough for us to worry about anything. The genetic counselor, Gina, told us that an average person has a 3% to 4% chance of having a child born w/ a defect & she gave us 1% higher. We are not going to freak out & do extra tests & screening to find out our baby has a "chance" of anything being wrong with it. There is nothing they can do for the baby while it's still in the uterus, so why would we want to worry for the next 5 months?!?!

MFM does want us to get a Level II Ultrasound when we are 20 weeks along. We will be 20 weeks the first week of June :-) Time is flying by fast!!!! The Level II will detect if a fistula has formed or if there is extra fluid around the baby. Those are signs that something could be wrong. We are going to discuss the Level II with our OB Doctor to decide if we need to waste more of our time & insurance money.

We will of course be keeping you all updated. Hope everyone is doing well. 5 months & counting until Baby H arrives!!!!

Love xoxox,
Nate & Rachel