Meg sweetie I'm totally with you. Lets sit here in jarmies, watching crappy flouncy girly videos and drinking hot chocky! I too subscribed to a week by week site..and it took 3 unsubscribe emails to stop them. They came complete with a little 3D picture of a bub at that stage :-(. I bought my little bracelet charm and now would love to get one of the trillion printouts of the scan they took. I'm still reeling from reading your story and how cruel that second chance you got was when it was taken from you again. :hugs:

Well girls...I DID get my test results in the mail when I got home tonight and will certainly be ringing my Ob for a chat on Monday. The baby (a girl - I DID get a shock when I read that on paper...not quite the "It's a girl" I had in mind ) had a chromosomal abnormality called Turners syndrome. From the quick hour of researching I've just done online tonight that it's the most common of the chromosomal errors where the baby only gets one X not the XX a girl requires. The fault seems to occur in the 23'rd chromosome..the one that makes us a boy or a girl. It's aparently completely spontaneous and can happen to anyone. In other words we've got no more chance of it happening again than any other couple. 10% of miscarriages are caused by it. Aparently is an error from way back when the cells start dividing. Oh..and dont you just love on those rsult sheets your baby being referred to as 'products of conception'? Here was me thinking our baby was a product of our love!!

While I'm still digesting this info and will now spend forever looking at everything I can find about it, finding what happened has brought me a strange sense of relief. There really WAS nothing I could have done to stop it happening..and even moreso..it wasnt anything I did (I thought I didnt eat enough because os morning sicknoess..or one day startled myself with a small trip-over). Knowing it was a girl has given the bub some more 'identity' too..so I know who I'm mourning.

Tonight (well this hour anyway) I feel a real positive feeling toward trying again knowing our odds are fairy normal. I also get a sense of relief as little girls who DO survive pregnancy to term are born without ovaries (therefore infertile) amongst other problems like heart and kidney defects, chance of hearing imparement and severe growth stunting etc...and once again it can happen to any conceiving couple.

Has anyone heard of this..or had an experience with Turners Syndrome?

:-) Pukeko