Sometime during the second trimester the doctors like to do a quad streen test, or the alpha fetal protein test which is an optional test that tells you if this protein is in your blood. If this protein is in your blood it means that your baby might have a neuro tube defect or possibly be a down syndrome baby. However, the rate of a false positive is very high. Well Josh and I decided to have it done, if its positive then we would schedule a more sensitive, more highly technical ultra sound, a level two. I wanted a level two ultra sound anyways because they are cooler. Well yesterday we got our test results back and they were negative. Yay! It made me feel a lot better, I wasn't overly concerned that they would be positive and if they were positive they could have been a false positive, so basically all it means to me is that I don't get a level two ultrasound. I have to go for the boring one. Bummer.
But our ultrasound is scheduled and if the baby lets us we are going to find out what flavor it is. So hopefully that will be our big Thanksgiving news!
2 comments:
That would be so cool. Also, mad props for using the word "flavor" in place of "gender." That's freaking genius. I'm seriously jealous I didn't think of it.
yay! so exciting!
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