Ok ladies, took a pregnancy test this morning for obvious reasons and low and behold, came back positive, hubby is gonna flip! anyhow, this pregnancy is going to be rather stressful due to the fact that we found out Linda-Marie has a balanced translocation between 2 of her chromosomes which after further testing, she got from hubby. So I know this baby can get the same thing or it can even be unbalanced. Am sure when my gy doc finds this out, he will suggest an amnio. Finding out would be helpful I guess but there is the slight risk of a miscarriage. Worry enough over Linda-Marie, how am I going to get through this pregnancy and in your all's opinion, should we have the amnio done? thanks.

Congrats on the baby! not sure what to tell you about the amnio so I will send you a (((HUG))) and postive baby vibes!

I had very high Quad Screen results for Downe's syndrome and the dr. suggested an amnio. I looked at it like this. What would knowing change? Is knowing for sure worth the risks that go along with amnio? If you find out that the baby does have this translocation, what would you or can you do? I personally decided NOT to get the amnio. My pregnancy had been very risky as it was and I couldn't live with the thoughts of intentionally adding another risk to it with the amnio. Knowing if my child had downe's or some other genetic problem would not change it or my feelings for the child. We just kept super close watch on Em's heart via u/s and weekly monitoring in case. She ended up not having downe's or any genetic issues at all. Just my two cents!

Congratulations!

We had an early amnio at 11 1/2 weeks because we know our parenting limitations and I'm OLD. I can't help you decided to have one or not but if you do, take some comfort in that the anticipation of the procedure is far worse than the procedure itself. I had visions of a knitting needle being jabbed into me, and in reality, the needle is about the size of one used to donate blood. I had a second amnio at the end of my 35th week to check for lung maturity, and Catherine was delivered the next day. I had no qualms at all about the second one.

Keep in mind ... if you wait until the traditional time for an amnio (16-20 weeks), by the time you get the results back (2 weeks later or so), you may not have any options available to you, depending on where you live. If you don't care if you have options, this isn't an issue. If you decide on an early amnio, you need to find someone who is skilled at performing early amnios as the risk of miscarriage is slightly greater than with a traditional amnio.

Contact a maternal-fetal specialist if you haven't done so already. You'll likely need to be seen by one whether or not you choose an amnio.

Congratulations! Any idea how soon you're due? I'm a definite NO on amnios for the same things that Melissa said. Even if I had known ahead of time that we would be dealing with a genetic syndrome with Evan, it wouldn't have changed my decision about going forward with the pregnancy. The only reason that I personally would have considered the amnio was if I wanted to end the pregnancy if something was wrong with my baby. It was just too risky for me to take the chance with either my kids. Again, just my personal opinion. Good luck with whatever you decide!

Hey all, told hubby over the phone little while ago, said he was going to hang himself!! Its ironic but I think I got pregnant about the same time I got pregnant with Linda-Marie so I'll probably get the same due date that I got with her, middle of January. Hopefully my blood pressure will be fine and I can carry this one to term. We would never choose to end the pregnancy if we found out there was something wrong and its true I would stress for those 2 weeks it would take for the results. part of me would want to know if everything is ok, will have to think very hard on this.

My dh has the balanced translocation (b/t chromosomes 12 & 15). Our oldest daughter had an imbalanced translocation between these two; however, B has absolutely no translocation at all.

We did the amnio with both girls. Lesley is right--you can choose to do the early amnio or you can do the traditional. Talk to your OB about this and see what s/he recommends. There are pros and cons to both types, so talk it over with your dh and your doc.

I do hope everything goes well for you. Feel free to PM if you want. :-)

It's a tough decision. sometimes it's just helpful to know even if it doesn't change anyhting that you do.
Good luck and congratulations
By the way how did you discover the transloction- what kind of test was done?

Congrats on the new babe to come!
Please bare with my ignorance,
what is Translocation?

Congratulations!!! I agree with Melissa, If it's not going to change anything anyway and will only make you more stressed, I would not get the amnio. Sending you lots of healthy baby vibes:D

Congrats on the news!!! :)

I am sorry that I am no help with the translocation, but I will be praying that this baby is healthy.... HUGS

Congarts on the up coming new baby. I would say no to the amnio just because if it is not going to change anything for you why risk the complicatons to the baby. Good luck with your decision.
Lauren

:hello2: Thank you all again for your input, hubby really does not want me to have one because of the risks to the baby. And a translocation, hopefully I can explain this right; we all have 46 chromosones, get half from dad, half from mom, well two of hers, numbers 5 & 7 broke off and switched places, so part of 5 is attatched to 7 and vise versa. She has all the material she is supposed to have just in a different spot. So the risk will be when she has children in the future they could either get the same thing or it could be unbalanced and actually I have the same risk since hubby has the same thing. And we found it by some routine blood work her doc ran, he is concerned over her slow weight gain and wanted to rule out any medical reasons for it and so far none were found. Hubby would have never know he had this if it had not been found in her.

Congratulations, Shanna!

I had an amnio done around 24 weeks. It was literally minutes after we confirmed Daniel's cleft lip and palate, and we agreed to an amnio to rule out other syndromes associated with clefts.

For the previous four weeks, we were pretty sure about the cleft (identified in an ultrasound), and we'd worried ourselves sick that there might be more to it. So in our case, we just wanted to be prepared -- and avoid worrying about things that would never come to pass.

24 weeks, so if we do decide to do this, we have plenty of time to think about it.

Well congratulations!
I also had an amnio done at 17 weeks. It was FAR less of an "ordeal" than what I had expected. Really it wasn't too bad. It didn't tickle but it wasn't bad. The IV into my hand before my c-section was MUCH worse.
ANYWAY, I had cramping for a day or two afterwards and was on bed rest. Other than that, everything was fine! Either way you decide to go, I hope everything is fine in your case aswell.
*Edited to say: IF I knew then what I know now, I would not have done the amnio. We were told Zac had 65% chance of having D.S. after my triple screen bloodwork. We were sent to genetic counceling, for a level II scan, and then also chose to do the amnio to be certain what we were dealing with. Not that it would have changed wethere we had him or not.
I had since heard from MANY others who were in the same situation. They had false positive results w/their bloodwork and were told awful things and everything came out fine.
Next time (if there is one) I will not be doing the amnio.
You situation sounds completely different though. I just wanted to share mine with you.

I guess what would bug me the most would be the waiting, I was a mess waiting for the results of my triple screen with Linda-Marie. On my first ultrasound with her, she looked perfect but they pointed out she had a small white spot (know there is a name for it) on her heart and that some kids with DS have this. did all kind of reading on it and found out that lots of babies have the same thing show up and they are fine, its rather a commom thing to see. keep going back and forth about this... oh, the stress!!

If it won't change anything you are going to do, then I would say no to the amnio. Just my two cents.

Congrats on the baby!!