Greetings, Human!
06 Feb 2012 2 Comments
Today we went in for our “integrated screening” procedure. We met with a “genetic counselor” and talked about blah blah blah…
OMG ALIEN! IT’S WAVING HELLO!!!
Greetings, Human!
Okay, now that that’s out of the way, back to the story. As I’ve already discussed, our disparate genetic past significantly reduces Freckle’s likelihood to contract any hereditary genetic diseases. There’s always the possibility of a spontaneous error happening (knock on wood!) so we get this integrated screening test thingy. They do some nifty measurements on different things, including mommy’s blood, and then come up with probabilities for different problems occurring. If anything seems worryingly probable, they move on to more invasive testing.
They did an ultrasound to get some measurements on the baby as part of the testing. Freckle, like mommy and daddy, seems to enjoy sleeping because there wasn’t much movement this time. Unfortunately, the nurse wanted to get measurements from the other side and so decided to wake Freckle up.
We tried a few different methods…jiggling the belly didn’t work, neither did tapping it. I was expecting the nurse to lean down and yell, “WAKE UP!” but instead she had some other less direct ideas (partially emptying the bladder didn’t work either, unsurprisingly) which were all equally fruitless. Finally she told Jenny to lay on her side for a few minutes and she’d be back to see if that helped.
The nurse stepped out for a minute and I took the opportunity to whip out my phone and crank up some tunes. Clearly Freckle just needed the right motivation. Since today is Bob Marley’s birthday, we figured it would be appropriate. Of course, it did the trick and then some. Freckle even gave us the “black power” fist when the nurse got back! I’d call that a great success!
Anyhow, we’ll get the first round of results in ten days and then we go back in for a second round in another 6 weeks or so. We’ll let you know how it goes. Black power!
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