Off the deep end....but climbing back up the ladder

My ever-grateful thank you to all who threw me a lifesaving ring after my last post. Especially to those of you who comforted me with stories of survival related to the Great Toxoplasmosis Crisis!

Nothing's really changed: we have no results back yet from the blood drawn yesterday. But Mr.Right and I have recovered and we're feeling significantly more positive. We both googled more and really read and thought about the statistics this time. He also went to the hospital library and did some textbook and article reading about standard of care for initial positive toxo results. This made us feel a lot better about the high number of false positives and the generally extremely low number of babies that are ever born with toxo effects. It also made us understand why antibiotics aren't probably warranted until a true positive is proven. (Oh, and someone asked why this test was even done. I have no idea. Apparently, they didn't do it when I was last pregnant, so why this time when it's not even routinely recommended? No idea.)

So, back to worrying about chromosome abnormalities. The CVS test is tomorrow. Yes, we've decided to go straight to CVS. No NT testing first since our thought is that it's probably going to be ambiguous at best given my age. We just want a definitive answer (apparently, we may still want a nuchal fold measurement because there are other issues that can be indicated than just chromosome abnormalities, but not sure if they'll be doing that tomorrow.)

I think the CVS will go fine. Our doctor cites a 1 in nearly 500 miscarriage rate for his office which is way better than a lot of the 1 in 200 rates you read in the baby books. These days, it sounds like with testing pushed more toward the 12th week, things are a lot safer and the miscarriage rate has really gone down. I'll be 11w5d tomorrow.

I did just reread their instructions for post-CVS care. Somehow I had thought it was only 48 hours that I needed to mostly stay off my feet and not exercise and such, but NO! It's 5-7 days :-( And I had been doing so good on exercise this week (until yesterday. I was even down 3 pounds between yesterday morning and the previous morning and down another .5 lbs this morning! No worries, I've still gained plenty for 11 weeks pregnant.) But, it will be worth it to know for sure that this baby has all the correct number of chromosomes.

So, there we are. If it's not one thing, it's another thing to worry about, but at least I'm feeling like I'm successfully treading water in the shallow end (where I could even choose to stand if I wanted to) and not going off the deep end any more.