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Posted by Jenee --Previous Message--
on 2/27/2004, 12:48 pm, in reply to "Trisomy 22 Mosaic"
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Hi Yvonne-- I can certainly understand your fears. I two children and am expecting my third any day. My first pregnancy developed normally and I delivered a healthy baby girl. Following that my husband and I suffered through two miscarriages. The second of those was complete so our doc gave us the clear to try again right away and I became pregnant with our son. Once again everything went well and he is healthy and normal. Then came a third miscarriage, then a fourth...finally on the fourth they did further testign then they had previously done to find a cause. Translocation of the embryos chromosomes. With all of our miscarriages the pregnancies stopped developing at about 5.3 wks...right before the heart would start beating. However, my hcg levels always continued to rise indicating a normal pregnancy. We found out in May of 2003 that I was a carrier for the translocation. My husband was serving in Operation Enduring Freedom when I found out. We had already decided to count our blessings and call it quits on conceiving again. But, upon his return in June, even though we took precautions against it, we immediately became pregnant. I was devastated. Knowing that we had this to deal with made this my hardest pregnancy, but, also, my most exciting. Every milestone is marked. The heartbeat, the first kick, and every sonogram that showed him developing--normally. You CAN HAVE HEALTHY CHILDREN,and my advice to you on that is this. Demand early sonogram tests to ensure the viability of your pregnancies...at the latest six weeks when there is a heart beat. This will ease your anxiety much earlier then waiting to see. Then I would request repeat level two sonograms to track your baby's development. Most likely any problems will self terminate the pregnancy, but if there should be another translocation of any kind that would cause a problem wouldn't it be nice to know ahead of time so you can educate yourself on the baby's special needs? We will not be having any more children after this baby is born, but that is only because we made the decision to have three many years ago. We have wonderful, smart, beautiful children and you can too! The most important thing is that you keep your anxiety level and comfort level at a minimum. Best of luck.
: Hello to the members,
: I don't know if I'm in the right place
: and if I'm not perhaps someone can
: point me in the right direction. I
: just found found this site from a
: search I did on Trisomy 22.
: I recently miscarried exactly a month
: from today and ironically I received an
: email today from my OBGYN telling me
: about the genetic testing he did on our
: embryo/baby.
: Turns out there was a definite
: abnormality with my pregnancy. His
: emaail: "There was an extra
: chromosome #22 which is called
: autosomal trisomy (this is not much
: different than trisomy #21 which is
: "Downs syndrome"
. However
: trisomy #22 is not compatible with any
: viability and is always miscarried.
: This is the reason the pregnancy
: stopped growing". I guess that's
: why I miscarried according to my
: doctor.
: I'm just trying to get some clarity on
: this from others who have experienced
: the same. Of course I will be talking
: to my doctor tomorrow and will get his
: instructions on what to do next but
: reading other's experience may help in
: what questions to ask, etc.
: For instance there are no chromosome
: defects in my family or my husband but
: yet we produced a embryo/baby wtih an
: extra chromosome 22, does this mean we
: should get tested prior to us trying to
: conceive again? Again, just for
: experience purposes. I'm not asking
: for medical advice here.
: This is all new to me and I'm extremly
: sacred and wonder if I should even try
: to conceive again knowing we had a
: chromosome defect with our first
: pregnancy.
: Thank you and hoping I'll hear from
: someone.
: Yvonne
:
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