CVS all normal

Just got the call that the detailed CVS results were back and showed every chromosome normal. No missing pieces, bent arms (whatever that means), etc. I still find it hard to believe that my body (of its own free will mind you) popped out a normal egg which was fertilized the extremely old-fashioned way and that we've made it this far (13w1d). Weird.

Now, if we can just get this toxoplasmosis thing to go away. But, honestly, I'm feeling ok about that.

I still think about it, but there's been nothing to do but wait for the results, so it's not really been causing much emotional grief at the moment. The hardest part has been reading the pregnancy books again, and, of course, reading ahead to future weeks. I read about what the baby will be doing, how big it will be and what I'll be looking like at 18 weeks and think about having to terminate at that point. Or even later depending on how long the PCR results from the amniotic fluid take to come back. It's not a pretty thought.

On the other hand, I'm still hopeful, that *if* the bloodwork testing shows that I might have actually contracted toxo in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy (or shortly before getting pregnant) that we'll get on the good side of the 6% (or worst-case 15%) chance of having passed it on to the baby.

Hopefully, there will be some news today or tomorrow from Palo Alto. I guess the best news would be that IgG is still negative and therefore the IgM is irrelevant and that we should just treat as a -/- (at least, that's what their little treatment flow chart shows the course of action to be with such a result.) I suppose the second best would be if the IgG does come back now positive that the avidity testing shows that they can exclude me having been infected in the previous 4 months (which they claim they can do.) Even then I wonder if we'll still want to do the amnio/PCR testing? I don't know.

For the moment, I'm going back to marveling in the miracle of a genetically normal egg having turned into the little baby girl that I'm currently carrying.