[Closed] Relief!

Good news! Congrats! 😀

Missed your first post, but just saw it via JoeG putting a link to this, which popped it back up.

Happy Days. Pleased all is well for you and your unborn!

Great stuff.

Yay! What a relief for you both.

Good news. Good luck, the second is at least 4x harder than the first.....

You will be a great parent. Great news for both of you.

Great news sir.

We had our first last year and bricked it until he arrived.

Thanks everyone.

that's what we've been told theotherjonv! Got our hands full with a 2 year old already. God knows how you manage 2!

Only just read your first post and had to stop as I was welling up :|. So good to read this straight after! I've got two kids and they are and always will be the best things in my life. Worth all the stresses (and money) a million times over. Enjoy!

we had something similar when MrsSB was pregnant for the second time.
Had standard blood test and hospital rang and said 'nothing to worry about but could your wife come back in for a scan tomorrow morning at 9:00 as her blood test is showing markers for downs'
Spent the rest of the night worrying and crying. Next morning we went in and had to wait for half an hour before she could be seen, during this time we decided what we would do if it was downs.
Went in and they did an ultrasound and confirmed that it wasn't downs but it was twins!!
I laughed and the wife cried 🙂

A few weeks later we had to go through the whole emotional thing again as the twins had suspected Edwards Syndrome (which is basically game over) - once again it turned out to be a false alarm but it wasn't an enjoyable pregnancy!

Glad its turned out well for you both.

The standard nucal fold and blood serum test is pretty low in terms of sensitivity/specificity. Non invasive prenatal testing of maternal blood (NIPT*) is much, much better for screening but it's a few years away from the NHS (run extensively
in USA). However amino is the best test - excellent all is clear.

*as a disclaimer my company provides these tests

Excellent news!

Now celebrate with a bottle of good beer and some fish and chips with salt and vinegar.

So pleased for you. My wife is 17 weeks pregnant and (touching wood) everything going ok so far. Until baby is born I'm still worried something may go wrong or baby is poorly.

My wife been pregnant is a little miracle for us as we were trying for 15 years without success, had all the tests and thought without going the IVF route she was not going to get pregnant. We went away for my 40th, "connected" on my birthday night and what you know she got pregnant!

Hurrah 🙂

Great news. Watched friends go through this a few years back, awful thing to deal with.

I am very happy for you.
Great news.
But you know, down syndrome is not the end of the world. My neighbours son has it and is such a lovely happy guy. He works in the local builders merchants sweeping and whatever light duties and knows everybody.

Thanks all.

Congrats mojo. The worry doesn't end when they're born though. You suddenly see the world as the most dangerous place imaginable.

iolo - I know. A close friend's Mum was a respite carer for children with downs (and she adopted two, too). In my original post, someone said, "the worries and stresses are in our minds, not theirs". Very true, I think.

Great advice chewkw

That is good news 🙂 I'd imagine the last few weeks gave been very difficult.

Just 3 1/2 weeks from our second being born and work is sending me 4500kms away for 5 nights next week! I'm just worrying about an early arrival now.....