Appointment this morning

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Was awful. Warning - this is a downer, so don't read if you're anxious about your A/S!

DH said it felt like getting punched in the gut for three hours. I say it felt like that but with needles getting stuck in me everywhere also.

Short answer is that the baby has a lot of the soft markers for Down Syndrome as well as a brain abnormality that is another marker or could be a sign of other problems.  The doctor put the odds at 1 in 4 for Down Syndrome. If it's something else, then we don't really know what the brain abnormality means, so in that case we'll need more testing.  I was able to have an amnio right after, which I wouldn't have done, but with 1 in 4 there was no way I was going to be able to just wait it out, so we get the results from the FISH on Wednesday and find out the amnio results in two weeks.  I have no idea how to react or what to think or what to feel.  Now I'm sitting on the couch trying to stop crying with a crampy uterus, a sore glute (I'm RH- so I had to have a rhogam shot), and a sore arm from the blood draw.

Hope your Mondays are better than mine is so far.