I am going to be a daddy!

Earlier today Alice and I got the test results we have been waiting for.  We are going to be parents, to two little twin boys.

We have had to have an extra battery of tests, and this has meant a considerable amount of our still short-lived pregnancy has been spent waiting for more test results.  As some of you may have already read in my blog, Alice and I were having fertility treatment and we are very lucky to have had it work (so far at least!) on the first attempt.

As a part of the fertility treatment you are scanned very early on at about 8 weeks, so that they can assess the initial viability of the pregnancy.  This then puts you back in the clutches of the national health service.  Which for most people would be a bloody nightmare I’m sure.  However, Alice and I are extremely fortunate to be living in Cambridge, within the catchment are for the University Hospital, and more importantly it’s Rosie Hospital department.  This hospital is one of the leading units in the UK for fetal medicine.

When we went along for our 12 week scan, the sonographer told us that one of the twins had a very high NT measurement and this put us in to the 99th percentile of risk of the twins having a chromosomal issue like Downs Syndrome, or Turners Syndrome.

This was clearly a shock, but Alice and I knew what we wanted to do immediately, and that was to have the invasive CVS test, which would give us a definitive result as to whether or not the boys have a chromosomal condition.  Those results are what we got today, and they were clear!  A side benefit of such a test is that they can also tell you with certainty the sex of the babies.

So, it has been quite a bumpy road so far, and there are still some potential issues hanging over us and the boys; but we will deal with them one at a time, and as they come up.  For now, I am just so happy that I get to tell people the news that I have been holding onto for over 6 weeks now.

I am going to be a daddy!  Hoorah!

Scan images are here ….