Hey farm gal! My DH and I are both Cystic Fibrosis carriers and our daughter Alana has CF. We found out we were both carriers when Alana was diagnosed with CF at 7 weeks old. We are doing our first PGD cycle in April. Have you spoken to a Fertility Specialist yet? The first thing we had to do was a feasibility test. Basically this determines whether you are suitable for PGD. This cost $1000 and is not claimable through medicare or health insurance. We did this through our genectic councellor. Then its getting a referral to a FS and then doing the preliminary test that everyone else gets, U/S, blood test, sperm analysis etc. PGD is very expensive as I believe the PGD side of things is not claimable through medicare, but the IVF cycle is. But hey, if we can have another baby without CF it would be worth every cent (just wish I had the choice with Alana). What are your chances of having a child with muscular dystrophy? We have a 1 in 4 chance with every pregnancy? With IVF if they can get 2 cells from the embryo then we have a 98% chance of no CF, if they can only test 1 cell then it goes down to 95%, which is much better then if we tried naturally. HTH!
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