Hi all,
My situation is fairly complicated as I have a new partner so he was tested to see if he was a carrier of DD's genetic condition and he isn't (its inherited from both parents so that means our children shouldn't have it so a relief). So thats easy enough.
But DD also has SLI with associated learning difficulties and a small head and now epilepsy so we are awaiting an MRI to see if there is a cause that brings it all together. And recently I saw the geneticist about all these things rather than the other condition and she ran some tests which showed a small deletion on chromosome four. When I spoke to her I asked would this be likely to affect DD's half sister (her dad and his partners baby) and she said it wasn't that likely.
So I wonder whether there is any point worrying about this from DP and mine's potential children.
And of course I worry about health and learning difficulties as the thought of going through what I went through in DD's early days is stressing me out. I know there have been threads like this before and lots of people have more children after having a child with SN so thought it was a good place to come to have a worry about it and maybe reassurance. DD is just lovely of course but I can't imagine having two of her
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used2bthin · 02/10/2011 09:25
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