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[quote=Anonymous]Hi all, Raspberry here. Very interesting to hear everyone's experiences with the genetic testing. This is our first, and at our practice everything was presented as "this is what most people do, you find out lots of stuff, etc". So although we knew it was technically optional, it's not like we've done this before, and if a doctor is telling you to do it, why would I really object, you know? If we have a second, I think I will definitely decline all of it though. It has caused me far more stress wondering if my insurance will cover it and trying to figure out what the results mean than the peace of mind I've gotten from "normal" results. Semi-related...a couple people asked about the travel I did recently. I was in Zambia, and I think I felt okay going because 1) I had been there before, 2) Everything looked ok at the most recent dr's appt, and 3) I was armed with the name of an OB practice that I knew had treated other Westerners. Our non profit does a lot of work with pediatric health issues, so I also felt like if I had a really bad emergency I could just call the office director (an American) and say "help! what do i do?!" (As an aside, we had some friends who took a trip to mexico towards the end of her second trimester and ended up delivering super early. The baby had to be evacuated to Miami and the mom had to stay in Mexico for a while. The baby is doing well now, but that's always been kind of our "worst case scenario" for travel, so I think the rest of our travel before October will be domestic.) But, ANYway, while I was in Zambia, I had the chance to visit one of the clinics that we support and there are volunteers that go out into the surrounding (very under-resourced) neighborhood, door by door, and identify kids with disabilities and try to offer the families support. We met a few of the families and kids they were helping and, I don't know, it just made something kind of "click" in my brain. I realized that as awful as it would be for us (at any point) to realize something was wrong with our baby, we would have the resources to handle it, and we would figure it out. Not that I'm normally at ALL one of those "they have it worse elsewhere, so my problems don't matter" kind of people, but for some reason seeing all of that up close (kids with severe problems, whose families had tons of other kids to care for, so they didn't even have shoes) just kind of reset the stress that the testing was causing. Hopefully I can maintain this zen state a little longer :-) And definitely not going for any other testing options, though I think we've already hit most of them... Anyway, sorry for the Wednesday afternoon ramble. I've been kind of out of it at work the last couple days, I think in part because we found out....we are having a girl! Since it's our first, I didn't really have a strong opinion one way or the other, but this is letting us both feel like things are a little more "real". Hope everyone else's afternoon is going okay! [/quote]
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