Lara Percival

Tag: test

  • Scary Results

    We got some scary news yesterday evening from the hospital. My blood test results came back as high risk for Downs Sydrome. I’m not going to lie, when I got the news, I broke down in floods of tears and sobbed until your Dad left work early and came home to comfort me. I called him the moment I got the news. He left work straight away to be by my side and comfort me. 

    This morning, your Dad and I went to the Maternity Day Unit at the hospital to talk to the specialist about our options. We have a 1 in 115 chance that you will have Downs. So, staying as positive as we can, you have a 99.5% chance you will be perfectly normal.

    Tomorrow, your Dad and I will head back to the hospital in the same unit to have an Amniocentesis Test. It involves injecting a fine needle through my tummy into your amniotic fluid around you, and take a sample of around 10mm so it can be sent away for testing. This test will give us a definite answer.

    I hope you’re ok, our Little Wriggly Bear.

  • The Pregnancy Tests

    I was getting all sorts of weird symptoms and had no explanation for them, so to rule it out we brought a pregnancy test from the chemist.

    I popped upstairs, did what you need to do, waited 3 minutes and there they were…two lil blue lines. A fluke your Dad and I thought, so I guzzled about a litre of water and had another go, same again, 2 lil lines.

    What you don’t realise is that about 8 years ago, I had an infection that caused one of my ovaries to enlarge, causing damage to both of my tubes. For health reasons I had one removed, and the other remained, declared as too damaged to be useful. I was told I would never conceive naturally. Yet here we are with now 4 positive pregnancy tests.

    We had to be sure, so we went a bought another pack, a different make this time with conception indicator. Positive again, twice, 3+ weeks. Twice. I couldn’t actually believe it. After you’re told you can’t, it’s all you believe. Time to book an appointment to see the Doctor.