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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi all...it's the OP. Doctor just called (yes, on a Saturday, I adore her). Guess what? Come on...say it with me...WE STILL DON'T KNOW. The full CVS results are negative. So basically we have no idea what might be causing what we have seen on the ultrasounds. The micro array may or may not tell us more, as a PP has noted...and that won't be back for two more weeks. We have an ultrasound this coming Wednesday...hopefully it will shed more light.

The doc did say the slow growth might be due to the baby just getting chromosomes from one parent rather than both (bizarre, I didn't know that was even possible)...apparently in those cases it is actually possible for the baby to be fine, just tiny. Might also be due to my bicornuate uterus. Or it could be something else altogether, perhaps dire, perhaps not.

At this point i am just shrugging my shoulders and resigning myself to more waiting... What else can we do? It would be funny if it weren't so totally not funny.

So, tune in Wednesday evening for the next installment. Thanks again for all your support.[/quote]

I'm so sorry PP.  I mean, I am happy that things look genetically normal so far, but it's so awful to not know!  And I know this because my DD had a translocation (parts of two chromosomes switched places), and like a PP said, there is very little in the literature about this particular switch, so we didn't know whether she would be healthy or not.  We went through the whole rigamarole with testing at Children's, all showing everything to be normal (more or less), and then they still give us the caveat that everything could be anatomically normal but the child could still have developmental problems, there is a continuum and she could be anywhere on the continuum, blah blah blah.  Long story short, DD was born healthy!  She still seems healthy and robust (maybe a little too much so on some days, but I am not complaining!!!) at 10 months, but I still worry.  I feel like I will never stop worrying, wondering what the translocation will finally mean and when symptoms will appear... a year, three years, ten.  Anyway, I am rambling as it is almost midnight and I should be getting work done.  My message here is to never give up hope!  After all the prenatal worrying, things can still work out ok.  Have faith.  I'll be thinking of you.[/quote]

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