Trisomy 13

Last week I had gotten my blood drawn to find out earlier what the gender of my baby is. Seeing as my first pregnancy the only thing that I had wrong was gestational diabetes, I was sure that the test would come back with nothing wrong. Well I get a call today saying that I needed to come in to talk to the doctor about further testing and then they hung up. Every possible bad thing was running through my mind so I rush home from work to grab my family and go to the doctor. We get there and no one is telling me anything other than wait for the doctor. Half a hour goes by and I’m pacing and can’t stop crying. Finally my doctor comes in and breaks the news to me. The test back with two abnormalities, one was a dominant family thing and the other was testing positive for trisomy 13. The test showed that there was an 8% percent chance of effecting my baby and now I wait for the office to call me about scheduling an appointment with a specialist to confirm the findings. I’m scared because everything that I have read about it is not good and my hormones kick in. It’s been several hours and I still haven’t stopped crying. In all the explaining of the results my doctor almost forgot to tell us what the gender of our baby is. We are having a little girl.

Update: I had the amniocentesis yesterday and that was such a horrible pain. The doctor wasn’t able to get the fluid with the first attempt so they had to move the needle. But I should be finding out the results tomorrow.