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Oh the People You Meet ...
When You're Trying to Conceive
By Jessica Frank
re and had the D and C for my miscarriage eight weeks before that. (I'm starting to hate the number eight!) We were asked to fill out paperwork at the central registration office after checking in at genetic counseling and insurance. After a half an hour of completing our paperwork, we re-entered the genetic counseling office to overhear that the doctor who we were supposed to see had called in sick.
Andy was only off that week. What do we do? You see, my miscarriage results had come back showing that I had lost a girl (Do you feel my heart breaking right now?) to trisomy 15. The trisomy was the result of an extra chromosome appearing on her set of chromosomes labeled 15. It is a condition not compatible with life. She never would have made it – instead, I miscarried. It's nature's way of cleaning house. Great for nature – horrible for us.
Our first concern was whether or not the two losses were related. Was there a reason that I carried for 38 weeks to lose one and eight weeks to lose another? (There's that dreaded number eight again!) Derek's cause of death was originally attributed to a cord accident, but we later discovered it was the result of a failed placenta. Did trisomy cause this? We had never gone forward with an autopsy or genetic testing, and they had tried to do a chromosomal analysis of the placenta but it failed.
Boy did I feel guilty at that point, more so after this second loss. Was I negligent? Should I have pursued testing after the last time? To be honest, after the wall of grief had subsided and I had thought of trying to conceive agai
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