Update on abnormalities: chromosome 4p

I posted the other day about discovering our baby has some abnormalities. I’m being closely monitored with two appointments a week, seeing a maternal fetal medicine consultant and our midwife.

We got a call back today to say that baby has a deletion on chromosome 4p. And possibly some extra genetics.

His symptoms so far include:

- Measuring very very small

- One undeveloped kidney

- Small hole in heart

- Small eye sockets

- Undeveloped nasal bone

- Single umbilical artery

- Potentially clubbed foot/additional toes

- Fused fingers on one hand

I’m kinda using this board as a place to vent a little. But also see if anyone else has experience with babies who have similar genetic conditions??

They’re running more laboratory tests to see exactly how much genetics is missing and how much extra he has. Which we should get the results for after Christmas. Hopefully we’ll have more of an idea as to how these differences are going to affect our baby. But if there isn’t enough medical research into it, we might never be able to predict anything.

So this is all very daunting. But we’re taking it one step at time. Just learning as much as we can to prepare ourselves for whatever the outcome. Drs still don’t seem very hopeful that baby will make it to meet us.