08.26.06
We had a roller coaster ride of a week. It started when our ambiguous Doc told me I had a "big jump" in weight and size; twins? I'm just getting too fat? Something? Anything? No info. And a blood test...

The next day day I get the dreaded call: "The AFP in your blood test was low, and you are at a higher risk for having a child with Down Syndrome. Come in tomorrow for an sonogram and a conversation on further plans."

We were just so crushed to hear that. Not that we would love a baby with Down's any less, it's just frightening and disheartening.

We looked up tons of info and found out the the AFP test is very innaccurate for detecting Down's. It didn't really make us feel better.

Today we went for the sonogram; it was just too cool. We found out it's most likely a little girl. There is this really great picture of her hand at the top of the pictures below. She looked so cute (as if you can tell by a sono :). She's a wiggler with a great heart rate and all of her tiny fingers and toes.

However, the sono didn't tell us much else. So we are scheduled for a more detailed sono at Dartmouth Hitchcock in Lebanon, NH. If there are no abnormalities detected in that sono, our chances of having a baby with Down's are halved to about 1 in 400 - pretty low. We feel a lot better after speaking with the doctor and seeing our little girl.