Today was the day.
I was in the middle of getting dressed when my genetic counselor called.
"I have good news for you," she said.
Our baby is a carrier for my husband's mutation on ALG12. A healthy carrier BOY.
I'm still stunned. This could happen. This could really happen.
After some chatter, I asked her if the test found anything else? Anything bad?
Turns out...no bad news! Just a healthy baby boy.
I expressed my concern about cystic hygroma and diaphragmatic hernia. Drew had both and John had neither. Both abnormalities are part of many syndromes, but they also can stand alone.
But my genetic counselor said she thinks we would have already seen evidence of a cystic hygroma and so far this pregnancy seems to be perfectly normal, perfectly unaffected.
I called my husband and cried. We are going to have a take home son!
I truly thought this baby was a girl. What are the odds of having three boys in a row?
So I spent some time looking at boy baby clothes at the store today and I even bought a little striped sleeper. I browsed the boy scrapbook papers.
Tonight we looked at boy nursery themes. We named our little one, our little boy.
It looks like we really are expecting Clark Alan on Dec. 29.
It is a miracle.
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