It’s hard to believe Autumn is already three and a half weeks old.  It’s sad how fast the time goes by!  Here is a picture of the sleeping beauty…

Anyway, I will cut to the chase.  As you know, we had Autumn’s blood sent in for a Microarray, to see if she has Down syndrome.  I called the pediatrician’s office yesterday because it had been three weeks, and I wanted to know if results were in.  The nurse said that she would call the lab today because they hadn’t heard.  She called today and said that the test came back with no abnormalities…which means no Down syndrome.  The Verifi screening was wrong.  The screening that the company claims is 99.8% accurate was not accurate.

I just can’t believe how all of this has played out.  I plan to make some calls – to the company, to the doctor’s office, to the MFM that we saw at Children’s – not to complain, but to inform.  I am also curious about the ins and outs of a false positive result.  I am not angry.  Not in the slightest.  I feel like we grew from this experience, and we are so thankful to have this beautiful new addition to our family.  I just want to know HOW it happened.  What causes something with so much “accuracy” to be totally wrong?

That’s all the time I have for now.  I have a lot more in my head about all of this – mostly about the internal struggle that has taken place with our feelings about this news, based on the fact that we already have a child with a disability that we love so much… but that would require a lot more organization in my brain, and time.  I am lacking both of those things, (as you can see from that run on sentence).  Right now I have a hungry baby, a boy that needs a shower, and a husband that’s working late.  I just wanted to get the word out because so many people have been asking. 🙂

So I will leave you with that.

Until next time…