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Posted: 25 September 2008 at 8:16am | IP Logged

Awww Sam i'm glad the tests have given a few answers.... not that it helps much but hopefully it'll shine a little light, i'm glad he gave you the results over the phone. Good luck for today when you meet the consultant.

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Posted: 25 September 2008 at 6:59pm | IP Logged

Hello, thank you all for your good wishes.  We didn't find out an awful lot more to be honest than what we were told on the phone yesterday.  He has prescribed me a higher dose of Folic Acid to take as I have UC but to be honest I have been on Folic Acid now since trying for Ols so I highly doubt i have low Folic Acid.  He said when I fall pregnant again they will look after us very well and we will be able to have immediate access to him and his team so no waiting for appointments just phone them up and go and see them.

Not sure how I am feeling about it all.  Of course we still don't really know what our other babies died from as they don't do any tests until after your 3rd mc which I understand but the frustrating thing is when you get to your 3rd mc you only really get answers about the 3rd and not the 1st or 2nd.  He said that our first mc was probably just one of those things, our 2nd because you have a higher risk of mc'ing multiples and now Fin as she had Downs.

So what that means for the future is we have about a 1 - 100 chance of having another baby with Downs.  No other real statistics than that.

He did take lots of blood just to rule out any blood clotting problems I could have although he doesn't think it will be a problem, the tests take a long time to come back and he will write to me with results.