My nurse called and informed me that I was a carrier for Spinal Muscular Atrophy. To see if our son is at risk, my husband would need to be tested to see if he is also a carrier.
I am very frustrated and confused because I had these genetic tests done when I was pregnant with my daughter and we never heard anything back from the lab or my provider at the time.
The lab here isn't open until next week so we won't be able to have my husband tested until Monday at the very earliest and even after that it's going to take weeks before we get his results.
I'm panicking because while yes we have one child that is 100% healthy, if both parents are carriers, the child has a 1/4 chance of having SMA. So in theory, we could have just been really lucky with my daughter.
I'm 20+5 weeks now. It's going to take us a few weeks to get my husband's results. I feel like I can't bond with this pregnancy and with my son knowing there's a chance that he can be taken from me. I know that's selfish and everything considering we don't really know anything yet but I just want a healthy son...I want to know that he's going to be okay. That I didn't somehow doom him to a life of suffering because I didn't know I had this gene mutation.
I wish we had been told this when I was pregnant last time because then we would know if my husband was a carrier. If we had been told that he was also a carrier, we wouldn't have tried for a second child..
So many emotions right now and I know none of my questions are going to be answered for many weeks.
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