Doctor called today with our results.
She started off by saying she had good and bad news. The good news is the baby had 46 normal chromosomes.
The bad news, they didn't have enough tissue to test for
CHARGE syndrome. (what our first daughter had).
She said that abnormal chromosomes are almost always to blame for miscarriages and they tested for abnormalities there first because they speculated that would give an answer.
Sadly, there wasn't enough left over to do the CHD7 test that is required to eliminate CHARGE. She mentioned that even though the baby measured 12 weeks(the day of the ultrasound), that there was far less tissue than she would have expected a 12 week fetus to have(if that makes sense)
I asked how common it is to not have a reason- and she stated VERY common.
However, I know the risk for reaccurance is REALLY low(1%) and the geneticist that I've been speaking with says that while CHARGE could be a possible cause it's VERY unlikely. CHARGE is almost always sporadic. Soooo...
I am bummed obviously, but feel at peace about TTC in the future. She said that she'd encourage us to try again if we wanted to and that these results should be encouraging for us. She said my m/c risk would only be higher if she suspected I had an abnormal shaped uterus(and she doesn't feel that is the case since I've had two full term births)-
She also said she didn't think Duane and I would benefit from testing before a pregnancy- because she honestly thinks this is random and a "bad luck" sort of scenerio.
I am a bit more optimistic now. All and all I am glad the testing is over and we can move on with our lives knowing that this baby didn't have anything wrong.
We also found out the baby was female.
Genetics results
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