Hi ladies,

Thank you all for supporting me. Thought you might like an update;

We had our amnio yesturday morning at 9am. It was a bit stressful and painful but our Dr was very professional, competant and well reccommended so I knew that it would be done well.

Forgot that as I am an O negative blood type I would have to have the anti D injection after (ouch!).

We decided to go for the FISH test and pay the extra $200 to get the results in early (they are 99.7% accurate so you need to wait for the full results anyway but still...). We were told to expect the results late on Friday afternoon.

My OB's MW just called with the results! All good! Thank you God.

I am so relieved - as you can imagine, had a little cry.

We need to wait for the confirmation in 7 days still but VERY unlikely to overturn the early results. YAY.

I am resting to minimise m/c risk. My DH took Wed-Fri off work so that he could look after DS and I. I have had quite a few cramps, mainly yestuday and overnight but no loss of fluid or blood. I feel like I am about to get my period and my belly isnt as big as it was before the amnio but I think that is because I am spending most of the day on the couch and not running around and working etc etc.

Also, they took out 25mls of amniotic fluid! They had me hold the vials after to check my details on them were right and sign them. I didnt actually realise what I was holding at first and then I realized, it was a bit odd. The vials were warm! Kind of made me feel icky. Like I shouldn't have been holding my own amniotic fluid with my babies wee and skin cells in... Odd.

Now we are going to tell our 4.5 year old that we are going to have another baby. Even if something happens at the next scan we need to tell him soon, he keeps asking about my belly and if I am going to have a baby - he only wants a sister apparently. I opted not to find out the sex of this one.

Also, the Dr had a look at the babies heart yesterday before the amnio and showed me there are four chambers this time! Thats better already than my sons u/s. We will wait until the 20 week scan to really get an idea of the heart though.

A relieved Rach,

XX