Gah

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Date: 26 June 2008 21:17:26

(For the eagle-eyed among you, yes, this is pretty much cut & pasted from the Ship. There are only so many ways you can phrase it all...)

Second set of amnio results today, which also came back clear. On the face of it good news, and I guess it does mean that we've ruled out anything caused by a chromosome abnormality.

But it feels like returning to square one. It still seems so unlikely that all the physical defects Ginger has are unrelated, but we are no nearer knowing what the underlying cause is, if there is one. Although none of the physical problems are lethal in themselves, we are still in a position where there may be a condition which is a real threat to her life, but we just don't know yet, and it seems unlikely that we will before she is born as it is not long now - they want to induce at about 38 weeks, which is about two weeks' time. So I'm not sure there is the time to do much more in terms of investigation.

I feel like after the first batch of results I allowed myself to become a bit more positive and I feel worse now than I did when all this first started happening. It's all a bit of a bugger, really.