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It’s a Boy!!!

Since our last post it has been pretty quiet at the Kaser house until this Wednesday afternoon. I received a call at 1:45pm from our Genetic Counselor. She said the results from the CellFree Genome Blood Screen were in and she would like to go over the preliminary information on the phone. I was headed into school for a meeting and said I would call back at 3pm when I was home, so Brian and I could call together.
We called the counselor at 3:10pm and she told us that the screen tested positive for Trisomy 13. She then told us there were 3 different types: full (80% of cases), translocation (20% of cases), and mosaic a very small percentage of cases. Since we opted out of the amniocentesis we would have to wait until baby is born to find out what type of Trisomy 13 it is, and then, depending on the type, whether Brian or I are carriers as well.
The Genetic Counselor also told us that with a baby with this disorder there is an increased risk of loss still and death after birth. She told us about a 2016 study that looked at 175 live births of Trisomy 13 individuals. Of those babies (20%) made it to their first birthday, (13%) made it to 10 years, and the median lifespan for most babies was a few weeks.


Brian and I sat at our dining room table trying to process what we were hearing. Even though the blood screen was not diagnostic it is highly likely our baby had Trisomy 13. As our conversation was finishing up, the Genetic Counselor asked who told us we were having a baby girl because the blood screen came back with Y chromosomes, so it turns out we are having a little boy! I started laughing and Brian was smirking. We could hear the relief in the Genetic Counselor voice that this wasn't something we were upset about. When we first heard about Trisomy 13 or 18 as a possibility my sister Jessica said to us after doing some research you know it could be a boy. Well it turns out she was right. We ended the conversation with planning to come in to the MFM office the next day to meet with the doctor.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. ~Romans 8:26-27~ 

Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you. ~Isaiah 54:10~

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