Amnio woes

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The rescheduled appointment gave me a week to agonize, research and reconsider. Decided to go ahead with it anyway, but planned in advance to halt the procedure if anything happend that would make it more risky than usual. Specifically, I decided to do it as a "one shot deal": no more than one pass of the needle, whether fluid was obtained or not (two or more needle insertions increase the risk of miscarriage, but nobody knows by how much.) I was told that it almost never required more than one pass to get sufficient fluid.

Alas, I was unlucky. 5mL of fluid was obtained, but then my uterus contracted and the doc couldn't get anymore. Stop, said I. Let's call it a day. The genetics counselor phoned the lab who said they'd be able to run the analysis with the amount of fluid they'd gotten, but there was a chance that they'd be looking at my own chromosomes rather that the kid's. So a "normal" result isn't necessarily to be trusted.

Feel proud of sticking to my principles and not doing something to increase the risk of amnio still further, but the uncertainty may kill me yet. Filled with confusion and self-doubt, but that's nothing new.

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