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.....
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