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[quote=Anonymous]Hey everyone! OP checking in again, I'm planning to keep the thread updated at least until we know definitively what's going on - that way it's not a mystery diagnosis for anyone who eventually finds the thread in the future if they're experiencing the same thing. But for now . . . still a mystery, except that it's definitively *not* any form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which is great! But otherwise, after the first flurry of doctors appointments and tests, the bloodwork came back and it's all in between the male and female ranges for the various hormone levels, which is not a surprise, given what we already know. Apparently though, around 2 months old, babies go through something called "mini-puberty," so we'll re-run the tests then and that'll offer a better picture of what actual puberty might look like and will factor into the recommendation the doctors give us on sex of rearing (i.e. which gender to raise the baby as). We're also still waiting for results on more extensive genetic testing, which I suppose would catch anything that was missed when we did the amnio.

I don't think I realized that once the baby was born we'd still be in for another 2 or 3 months of uncertainty, but there you have it. In the meantime we're just trying to find a balance between respecting the baby's privacy and also not treating this like a shameful secret, which in some cases means straight up saying "we don't know yet" when people ask if they're a boy or girl. (Yes, we've gotten some strange looks, but we don't generally explain much further.)

To answer a few questions that've popped up since I last posted: When I first saw the baby, I was genuinely so happy and excited to meet them. It helped that I wasn't in any pain (thanks epidural!) so I was very present in the moment in a way that I wasn't with my first baby. As for the genital situation, I didn't look in the baby's diaper basically until we were home from the hospital two days later - other people were handling diaper changes, and I admit I was somewhat afraid to see whatever was down there. Several weeks in now, I've become somewhat accustomed to it, I guess.

And, since someone asked and I doubt people can discover much with just a first name - we named the baby Adrian.  :) [/quote]

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