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renee26 has 19 days to go and is now in week 37
	Age: 25 Country: Province/region: City: Partner: Chris Children: Pregnant: Yes Due date: 14 Aug ,2008 Occupation: Photographer
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Feb 12th 2008
My husband and I are excited to be expecting our first child.

Last week we bought a fetal doppler and heard the heartbeat for the first time!
I'm looking forward to our first scan in a few weeks:)

Well it's been an eventful week!
On Feb 14th we went for the triple screen blood test and received a positive result for downs syndrome one week later.
My husband and I although obviously upset tried to remain confident that the result was a false positive due to the fact that we are really low risk for anything like this.

We were refered to a specialist Obgyn however which is the standard procedure here in Canada for a positive result on the triple screen test.
The blood work was redone on Feb the 21st, just in case there had been an error with the first test.

Upon seeing the specialist doctor she informed us that the next logical step was an amnio. This news was extremely upsetting to me as I had thought that we would wait for the next set of blood work and an ultrasound before having to have this procedure.

On Feb the 27th I went into hospital for the amnio, having had practically no sleep at all due to worrying!
Before you go in for the amnio a technician does an ultrasound and determines the fetal age as well as taking pictures to help with the amnio prcedure.
This was my first ultrasound as my husband an I were confident we had our dates correct and had a good idea of when we conceived.

This is when the good news finally started coming in...
The technician discovered the fetal age to be 2 weeks less than first predicted.
This means the original blood work from the triple screen were done out of the accurate time frame alowed for the test and voided the initial results!
There was now no need to do the amnio!

On the ultrasound we were able to see our tiny lil baby for the first time and it was totally amazing! We even saw the baby appear to yawn and move around:)

At 3pm on the 27th we received a phone call to let us know that the 2nd triple screen test had come back negative and everything looked fine.
Just like that, after a week of worrying we discover everything is going to be ok!
I can't even really describe the total relief and grateful, thankful emotion I feel.
I didn't realize how deeply in love I was with even just the idea of my lil baby, until the chance that it could all be taken away was becoming a reality.

From all this I've learned to trust my instincts (which were whispering all the time, everything is going to be ok) and that none of us are promised a healthy baby at the end of all this, to truely appreciate that there are no promised tomorrow's.

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