10/12/2010 3:02:28 PM

silas is gonna have a little bro/Sis

10/12/2010 3:05:43 PM

that's serious equipment, yo.


a digital stick you can pee on

10/12/2010 3:10:40 PM

I peed on 3 non-digitized sticks first.

10/12/2010 3:13:02 PM

sweet. A new wing buddy. oh wait, you're moving to greenville.

10/12/2010 3:14:17 PM

ugh

10/12/2010 3:15:06 PM

Percy, I promise to drive up for wing nights so you can properly train baby 2.

10/12/2010 3:22:05 PM

congrats bb!

10/12/2010 3:31:11 PM

Yay!!! CONGRATS!

10/12/2010 3:35:08 PM

Going by your username, I always thought you were a gay man.

10/12/2010 3:37:13 PM

Congrats.

10/12/2010 3:37:54 PM

LOL that's ok. It's understandable.

10/12/2010 3:38:14 PM

Ugh...Breeders.

10/12/2010 3:52:27 PM

fucking disgusting is nothing private anymore

10/12/2010 3:55:21 PM

Nope. PackPrincess was with me when I took the first and the fourth tests. She's been dying for the last day to make this thread.

10/12/2010 3:57:28 PM

have a little propriety you fuckin chickens

10/12/2010 3:58:53 PM

congrats!

10/12/2010 4:41:19 PM

congrats

10/12/2010 4:43:48 PM

Grats


[Edited on October 12, 2010 at 4:46 PM. Reason : a]

10/12/2010 4:46:24 PM

So I guess you are the one that was lactating in the pantry? lol :-p

Congrats!

10/12/2010 5:25:39 PM

*lol*

Yeah, that was me.

10/12/2010 5:46:46 PM

why would you waste so many pregnancy tests

why do terrible parents continue to reproduce

why

10/12/2010 5:48:21 PM

congrats!

lots of pregnant twwers these days

10/12/2010 5:52:27 PM

Pregnancy tests now come in multi-packs because most women test more than once for any number of reasons -- user error, testing too soon, disbelief, continued attempts at pregnancy. If you are pregnant, the extra tests expire before you would have cause to use them again. So, you either throw them away, give them to your whore friend, or verify your positive (why not?). I retested because I had been drinking water like crazy and my positive line was initially so faint that it was almost undetectable and then I wanted to make sure that the line was even darker from one day to the next. (Indicating that hormone levels are going up and the pregnancy isn't just chemical.)

And if I'm a terrible mother, then I'm incredibly grateful that my son is so resilient that he thrives despite my failures as parent.

10/12/2010 6:05:41 PM

Quote :

"verify your positive"

verify MY positive? It's more likely than you think.

10/12/2010 6:08:30 PM

expressive aphasia

10/12/2010 6:11:54 PM

10/12/2010 6:12:59 PM

Who'd she have to proposition/assault?

10/12/2010 6:14:14 PM

fetal alcohol syndrome

10/12/2010 6:15:16 PM

I've been with my husband for more than 8 years now.

and

congenital thymic aplasia

10/12/2010 6:17:12 PM

Quote :

"History of exposure to alcohol and other toxins like isotretinoins is also relevant because the phenotype associated with fetal alcohol syndrome and isotretinoins resembles that of DiGeorge anomaly."

also, when i said "expressive aphasia" i was talking to Genius, as he claims to suffer from it

[Edited on October 12, 2010 at 6:20 PM. Reason : s]

10/12/2010 6:19:39 PM

Quote :

"also, when i said "expressive aphasia" i was talking to Genius, as he claims to suffer from it"

did GeniusBoy have a stroke he forgot to tell us about?

10/12/2010 6:22:36 PM

Quote :

"DiGeorge syndrome: Causes (Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)) DiGeorge syndrome is probably caused by abnormal fetal development (12th week of gestation) of the third and fourth pharyngeal pouches, which interferes with thymus formation. As a result, the thymus is completely absent or partially present in an abnormal location, causing deficient T cell-mediated immunity. (See Role of the thymus in immune response.) This syndrome has been associated with maternal alcoholism and resultant fetal alcohol syndrome."

[Edited on October 12, 2010 at 6:23 PM. Reason : d]

10/12/2010 6:23:18 PM

Yes, the PHENOTYPE resemble FAS, but DiGeorge Syndrome is not FAS and FAS is not DiGeorge Syndrome. DGS is due to a verifiable and testable genetic anomaly. In fact, Silas and I have nearly identical congenital differences from our impaired T-cell mediated immunity to our fused cervical spine.

In fact, Silas and I are closely followed by genetics at Duke because he and I are the only known comorbid cases of Klippel-Feil Syndrome & DiGeorge Syndrome.

[Edited on October 12, 2010 at 6:28 PM. Reason : .]

10/12/2010 6:26:00 PM

just try to kick the booze for a couple months this time

10/12/2010 6:28:11 PM

10/12/2010 6:29:41 PM

Quote :

"he and I are the only known comorbid cases of Klippel-Feil Syndrome & DiGeorge Syndrome."

so you wanted to make another one?

[Edited on October 12, 2010 at 6:32 PM. Reason : where i'm from we call it short neck disease]

10/12/2010 6:31:14 PM

After discussing things with genetics, we decided to have another baby. Having a genetic disease does not make a person's life less worthy.

10/12/2010 6:35:13 PM

Quote :

"Having a genetic disease does not make a person's life less worthy"

What do genetic diseases do?

10/12/2010 6:52:26 PM

how many times did you get drunk during your first child's pregnancy? how many times have you been drunk when home alone with your child?

10/12/2010 7:02:19 PM

TrollyMcTrollerson.

I had a total of 2 drinks during my first pregnancy. One before I was even late with my period and the other when I was 8 months along at Thanksgiving with my husband's family. Big damned deal.

And I have never been home alone with Silas drunk. Haven't you ever thought that if I were a lousy alcoholic parent that someone would have taken that child away from me long before now? Between doctors visits, home nurse visits, workers with the CDSA, and therapists, Silas doesn't breathe without someone knowing it. And if you had to spend a year of your life like I did, you'd probably drink too when it wasn't your turn to draw up meds or monitor an infusion. And I spent more than a year in treatment for it and have come to terms with it. So kiss my ass and troll away.

10/12/2010 7:31:04 PM

congrats

10/12/2010 7:45:40 PM

the treatment didn't work

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10/12/2010 8:37:35 PM

congrats!!

and +1 for this

Quote :

"After discussing things with genetics, we decided to have another baby. Having a genetic disease does not make a person's life less worthy."

Are you guys going to have amnio and such?

10/12/2010 8:46:54 PM

and for the record, i don't think anyone's life is less worthy than anyone else's

10/12/2010 8:47:51 PM

what in the fuck is going on in here

10/12/2010 8:53:27 PM

Congrats Bottombaby!

I wish you a safe and sound delivery!

10/12/2010 9:00:23 PM

Wow. The posts that you're referring to are pretty lame. I went into therapy to learn how to cope with having a child with complex needs and I learned how to cope. And that's not with copious amounts of alcohol. In fact, some of my posts you're referring to even highlight that.

Thanks, Samwise16! We are not going to do an amnio because genetics hasn't identified our particular genetic anomaly -- it's not the 22Q deletion. We've looked into GDF6 and TBX1 without a great deal of luck, so an amnio just wouldn't be useful. We'll look for features on the ultrasounds, do a newborn SCIDS screen, and love whatever we end up with. However, we are hoping for a girl because genetics thinks that it could be sex-linked.

10/12/2010 9:01:43 PM

your usage of the word "genetics" is lazy

10/12/2010 9:06:17 PM

CONGRATS!!!

10/12/2010 9:13:43 PM