We have 4-month old twins, a boy and a girl. They are our only children. Our little girl has had breathing difficulty which was initially diagnosed as stridor. She makes a wheezing sound when she breathes and her chest heaves up and down. Not always, but very often. She has had x-rays and a "swallow study" done to see if there were any cysts in her esophagus, and they came out normal. Stridor is supposed to be relatively harmless and go away on its own in a few months.
She also has had difficulty keeping formula down and was throwing up a lot. The stuff that came out was kind of a think, mucusy version of the formula. Not really what I'd call vomit, but a large volume - far more than normal spit-up. She has been taking Reglan and the vomiting has stopped.
She has also something called "wryneck" where she can't hold her head up very well. She's getting physical therapy for that.
Also, compared to her brother, she is small. They're about the same height/length, but he is nearly 14 lbs and she is less than 12 lbs. I know there is a difference between boys and girls in size and strength, but she seems frail compared to her brother. He is strong and flabby, and she is lean and fragile. She drinks less formula than her brother, but has about 24 oz per day, which is normal for her size.
She is out of sorts often, which we assume is because she doesn't feel well much of the time. She does sleep through the night and has several moments during the day when she is smiling and laughing and happy. But compared to her brother she is definitely the cranky one.
We recently took her to another pulmonary specialist, who said it seems like she has stridor, but he wants to have her tested for CF. Well, as we read through the symptoms, we get nervous because many of them do describe her. We can't get in for the sweat test until Wednesday, and are really anxious to have to wait so long. The more we read about CF, the more scared we get.
Now my question is, as I understand this, if our daughter has CF, wouldn't that mean our son has to have it, too? If two people who are CF carriers have children, wouldn't all of their children have CF? Even though I obviously don't want either of our babies to have any disease, I'm sort of hoping this is true because since our son doesn't really have any of the symptoms, that would seemingly make it less likely that our daughter has CF even though she does have some symptoms. I've tried to read as much as I can, but the info I've found doesn't address this.
Can anyone help me with this?
By the way, neither my wife nor myself know of anyone in our families who has had CF, though I understand that we could each still be carrying the gene.
I also want to say that I feel for anyone who has CF or has a loved one who does. There are so many terrible diseases that it's easy to hold them in the abstract and not really think about them when they don't affect your life, but when you find that your little baby may have such a disease, it really hits you hard and brings that reality crashing down around you.
She also has had difficulty keeping formula down and was throwing up a lot. The stuff that came out was kind of a think, mucusy version of the formula. Not really what I'd call vomit, but a large volume - far more than normal spit-up. She has been taking Reglan and the vomiting has stopped.
She has also something called "wryneck" where she can't hold her head up very well. She's getting physical therapy for that.
Also, compared to her brother, she is small. They're about the same height/length, but he is nearly 14 lbs and she is less than 12 lbs. I know there is a difference between boys and girls in size and strength, but she seems frail compared to her brother. He is strong and flabby, and she is lean and fragile. She drinks less formula than her brother, but has about 24 oz per day, which is normal for her size.
She is out of sorts often, which we assume is because she doesn't feel well much of the time. She does sleep through the night and has several moments during the day when she is smiling and laughing and happy. But compared to her brother she is definitely the cranky one.
We recently took her to another pulmonary specialist, who said it seems like she has stridor, but he wants to have her tested for CF. Well, as we read through the symptoms, we get nervous because many of them do describe her. We can't get in for the sweat test until Wednesday, and are really anxious to have to wait so long. The more we read about CF, the more scared we get.
Now my question is, as I understand this, if our daughter has CF, wouldn't that mean our son has to have it, too? If two people who are CF carriers have children, wouldn't all of their children have CF? Even though I obviously don't want either of our babies to have any disease, I'm sort of hoping this is true because since our son doesn't really have any of the symptoms, that would seemingly make it less likely that our daughter has CF even though she does have some symptoms. I've tried to read as much as I can, but the info I've found doesn't address this.
Can anyone help me with this?
By the way, neither my wife nor myself know of anyone in our families who has had CF, though I understand that we could each still be carrying the gene.
I also want to say that I feel for anyone who has CF or has a loved one who does. There are so many terrible diseases that it's easy to hold them in the abstract and not really think about them when they don't affect your life, but when you find that your little baby may have such a disease, it really hits you hard and brings that reality crashing down around you.