the results are in

NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY SCREENING

DATE: 9/10/07

Today you had Nuchal Translucency Screening performed on your pregnancy. The measurement of your baby's nuchal translucency was 2.8mm.

This measurement reduces the risk of Down syndrome from 1:805 (based on your age and the fetal size) to 1:972 (based on your age, the fetal size and the nuchal translucency thickness).

These results are reassuring, but they can never completely exclude Down syndrome.

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called in sick since our NTS was scheduled for today and i was feeling lazy. when we reached the san ultrasound for women there were a lot of patients so we knew it was going to be a long wait. it didn't take long though for my name to be called which was good since i was busting and wanted to go to the toilet already (they told me to fill up with fluids before the scan). they did the scan for almost an hour, i didn't mind though since i always look forward to seeing our baby. what was good about it was they had the ultrasound machine screen projected in a flat screen tv mounted on the wall where we were facing so eric and i were like watching a movie starring our baby (can't wait for our 18-20 week morphology scan!). after that, the doctor saw us and interpreted the results together with the my recent blood test results. everything's fine with the baby. she also confirmed presence of nasal bone (which apparently even lowers the risk of down syndrome). i was even told that my risk is the same as someone a couple of years younger than me (looks like my eggs are still in tip top shape). afterwhich i was given the report above. oh, and we were also given a few pictures of our baby (i'll see if i can scan them so i can upload them here).

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on another note, remember this? well, we finally got our new front door installed this morning but decided on a different one since the corinthian door costs more than twice as much as the one we got from doors plus. after almost two years, our front door now looks decent...

we really think it made a whole lot of difference in the over-all outside look of our home! we're still thinking though if we're going to have a screen door installed so that during the warmer months we can leave the front door open...