thanks Christine for your further info. sounds like there might be lots of side-effects from major heart operations like your son's vocal chord that just cant be predicted... thats what i keep reading. its just whether they are major or minor problems. is your son normal in every other way? ie, developmentally? physically?

our biggest decision over the next few weeks is whether to continue with the pregnancy or not.... and i just dont know how we are going to make that decision.... we're very 'scientific' so i guess we'll go with the stats. our biggest concern is the baby's quality of life, if it survives the operations.

Leesa, our downes syndrome test at 12 weeks came back good for my age - 1 in 2200. and everything else in the scan at 20 weeks looked normal. but i guess the amnio today will tell us if anything else is wrong.

i still cant believe this is happening, it is surreal