100% boy

its 10 to 11 on a public holiday eve.... tomorrows labour day... when you think about it, we do laundry on laundry days, go to school on school days, give birth on birthdays but we kick back and have a holiday on labour day... hmmmm....

we were at dr theos office last friday... we were in for number twos 20th week check up... we were suppose to check on his physical development, heartbeat and stuffs like that... we got there at two for a two thirty appointment... theres only one guy in the waiting room with a ladys handbag, reading a magazine... the tv is showing reruns of spiderman but i am just starting at the fishes in the little fish tank... there seems to be one or two fish missing.... it wasnt long before we were in dr theos office....

dr: hello.... so you know the results of that test.... everything is alright with the baby...
me: yah, does that mean that the results is a 100%?
dr: well, let me rephrase that, the baby is not a 100% all right, its just that he is not going to have downs syndnome...
me: hmmm.... thats half a relief....
THE WIFE: what else can the test tells us?
dr: 100% sure that the baby is a boy....
me: hmmm.....

THE WIFE hops on the bed and the nurse readies her..... the doc starts with the scaning thingy...

dr: lets see now.... heres the head.... the body, spine.... arms... leggs.... heartbeat... and you can actually hear his heart beat....

he flips some switches on the machine and we hear heartbeats.... cool isnt it? we can actually look inside number two while he is inside THE WIFE.... hear his heart beat even.....

dr: everything looks allright...
me: is his head big?
dr: no... everything is normal.... everything looks all right....i will see you a months time....
THE WIFE: okay

and with that, we made another appointment for the end of the month.....

everythings gonna be all right....... :)

its 40 after 10 on a full moon night.... THE WIFE and junior have turned in and i have just stepped out of the shower and ready for a little me time...... the past couple of weeks was lousy... it was two weeks ago that the good doc told us that results of the blood test that THE WIFE took has indications of a possible down syndrome and we were adviced to take another more invasive test to confirm the results of the first blood test.... although it was me birthday last week, i wasnt really in the mood to celebrate....

i spent most of the days keeping meself busy and trying not to think too much about it.... although i have not discuss anything with THE WIFE, but i think she is also not really having an easy time either..... time seems to drag and your mind tend to picture the worst while waiting for the call to come..... but the good doc called today... it was negative, the blood test was a false positive... number two was going to be alright....

according to the first blood test, we had a 1 in 75 chance of number two being born with down syndrom.... the safe zone was 1 in 250.... according to dr theo, 1 in 75 is a high risk and 1 in 20 of all pregnancy would be tested positive for high risks.... but usually the high risk would turn out to be false positive.... we have to take an invasive test that invloves drawing fluid form THE WIFEs tummy.... that test has a micarriage rate of 1 in 370... and according to the good dr, the results of the invasive test will be 100% accurate.... i am no mathematician but as an engineer... i know, 1 in 75 is not too bad of an odds, when you think about it, out of every 75 births, only 1 would be it.... but when it hits so close to home, even 1 in a thousand is lousy odds....

we were facing a very real possibility that number two would be born unwell and the worst decision for any parents to make is should they or shouldnt... i guess we were spared that tough decision.....

we are going in to see dr theo this coming friday.... we will be doing a routine check on number two to see if his growth is normal, the development of his head, body and stuffs like that.... i guess this means we can start to stock up on baby stuffs for number two.....