Originally posted by lizzielou742
Hmmmm...

Who exactly is the letter from? What can the genetic pedigree tell you that would be helpful to know in this pregnancy?
The letter is from a Kaiser geneticist. The genetic pedigree is basically a family tree, but it has all the medical history of your family in it. (*edit* My family tree is royally messed up...both my side and my husband's. There are alot of health problems in our family. I never gave it much thought or realized it until they questioned our history. I jokingly said "Wow, this is depressing, I had never thought this all out." The geneticist replied "Yeah, we tend to do that to alot of people.")

I just called my doctor, she said that she is aware of it and that she did refer me. She said not to worry, it's just a precaution. I also just confirmed that insurance covers it.

As far as the whole point of this...I don't know. I don't see the point in finding out something is wrong with my baby if I cannot fix it. I don't believe in abortion, especially when I am this far along, I'm having this baby no matter what. But they explained that there are some things they can catch with this chromosome analysis that they're able to fix while I'm still pregnant.

This just all seems weird to me though. I am going to go get the blood drawn right now so that I can get it over with. They said it takes a few weeks for results. Hopefully it is no big deal.