During Mel's hospital release, they did some standard 48-hour tests on her - screening for things like Hypothyroidism, PKU, etc. Well, at our doctor visit last Friday, I learned that she tested positive as a carrier for Cystic Fybrosis. Jeff and I have never had the CF test, so we're not sure which of us is a carrier (and now I don't want to know); but what this means for Melanie is that she has to be tested to see if she actually has Cystic Fybrosis.
I keep reminding myself of the odds - even if Jeff and I are BOTH carriers, there is only a 25% chance that Melanie actually has the condition (who knew that I actually learned something in High School Biology??) However, it is still, as you can imagine, pretty scary, and we will accept prayers that Miss Melanie is a healthy baby!! We're hoping to find out the results tomorrow -but we have a follow-up doctor visit on Thursday, so we should definitely know something by then. Hopefully it is not a repeat of the last test we had done at the same hospital, where they messed up the sample and we had to get retested!
We'll keep you posted!
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Angie you will be in our prayers! Sounds like Miss Mel is doing great on her sleeping, and eating and getting lots of loving! What more does a little girl need!
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