Genetic testing

ashleydog

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I am sure I am in the minority, and a lot of you won't be happy with my answer, but we chose not to have my husband tested for being a carrier. our parents did not agree, but my doctors ( even my cf and infertility specialist) supported me in this. I also skipped all the genetic testing on the baby during pregnancy. I only wanted testing for something that would have needed to be fixed prior to birth
 

ashleydog

New member
I am sure I am in the minority, and a lot of you won't be happy with my answer, but we chose not to have my husband tested for being a carrier. our parents did not agree, but my doctors ( even my cf and infertility specialist) supported me in this. I also skipped all the genetic testing on the baby during pregnancy. I only wanted testing for something that would have needed to be fixed prior to birth
 

ashleydog

New member
I am sure I am in the minority, and a lot of you won't be happy with my answer, but we chose not to have my husband tested for being a carrier. our parents did not agree, but my doctors ( even my cf and infertility specialist) supported me in this. I also skipped all the genetic testing on the baby during pregnancy. I only wanted testing for something that would have needed to be fixed prior to birth
 

ashleydog

New member
I am sure I am in the minority, and a lot of you won't be happy with my answer, but we chose not to have my husband tested for being a carrier. our parents did not agree, but my doctors ( even my cf and infertility specialist) supported me in this. I also skipped all the genetic testing on the baby during pregnancy. I only wanted testing for something that would have needed to be fixed prior to birth
 

ashleydog

New member
I am sure I am in the minority, and a lot of you won't be happy with my answer, but we chose not to have my husband tested for being a carrier. our parents did not agree, but my doctors ( even my cf and infertility specialist) supported me in this. I also skipped all the genetic testing on the baby during pregnancy. I only wanted testing for something that would have needed to be fixed prior to birth
 
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Keepercjr

Guest
Ashley - we skipped genetic testing for DS during pregnancy and I'm skipping it all this time. But I feel that knowing whether DH was a carrier was important in our decision to have kids naturally. Had he been a carrier we probably wouldn't have had our own kids (on purpose - I would keep my CF baby if we had an accidental pregnancy) since it was a 50/50 shot. But I will say we did start TTC before we got his results back but I didn't actually get pregnant till after we found out he wasn't a carrier. I wasn't overly concerned though - he's Mexican and though CF definately happens in Mexicans, it is less common than being of European descent like myself and he has no family history of the disease.

I would say that I don't agree with your decision not to have your DH tested (I would encourage any spouse of a CFer to be tested) but I understand it. Even if someone didn't care whether their DH was a carrier and would still have kids regardless, I find (for myself) that it is helpful to know the odds.
 
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Keepercjr

Guest
Ashley - we skipped genetic testing for DS during pregnancy and I'm skipping it all this time. But I feel that knowing whether DH was a carrier was important in our decision to have kids naturally. Had he been a carrier we probably wouldn't have had our own kids (on purpose - I would keep my CF baby if we had an accidental pregnancy) since it was a 50/50 shot. But I will say we did start TTC before we got his results back but I didn't actually get pregnant till after we found out he wasn't a carrier. I wasn't overly concerned though - he's Mexican and though CF definately happens in Mexicans, it is less common than being of European descent like myself and he has no family history of the disease.

I would say that I don't agree with your decision not to have your DH tested (I would encourage any spouse of a CFer to be tested) but I understand it. Even if someone didn't care whether their DH was a carrier and would still have kids regardless, I find (for myself) that it is helpful to know the odds.
 
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Keepercjr

Guest
Ashley - we skipped genetic testing for DS during pregnancy and I'm skipping it all this time. But I feel that knowing whether DH was a carrier was important in our decision to have kids naturally. Had he been a carrier we probably wouldn't have had our own kids (on purpose - I would keep my CF baby if we had an accidental pregnancy) since it was a 50/50 shot. But I will say we did start TTC before we got his results back but I didn't actually get pregnant till after we found out he wasn't a carrier. I wasn't overly concerned though - he's Mexican and though CF definately happens in Mexicans, it is less common than being of European descent like myself and he has no family history of the disease.

I would say that I don't agree with your decision not to have your DH tested (I would encourage any spouse of a CFer to be tested) but I understand it. Even if someone didn't care whether their DH was a carrier and would still have kids regardless, I find (for myself) that it is helpful to know the odds.
 
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Keepercjr

Guest
Ashley - we skipped genetic testing for DS during pregnancy and I'm skipping it all this time. But I feel that knowing whether DH was a carrier was important in our decision to have kids naturally. Had he been a carrier we probably wouldn't have had our own kids (on purpose - I would keep my CF baby if we had an accidental pregnancy) since it was a 50/50 shot. But I will say we did start TTC before we got his results back but I didn't actually get pregnant till after we found out he wasn't a carrier. I wasn't overly concerned though - he's Mexican and though CF definately happens in Mexicans, it is less common than being of European descent like myself and he has no family history of the disease.

I would say that I don't agree with your decision not to have your DH tested (I would encourage any spouse of a CFer to be tested) but I understand it. Even if someone didn't care whether their DH was a carrier and would still have kids regardless, I find (for myself) that it is helpful to know the odds.
 
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Keepercjr

Guest
Ashley - we skipped genetic testing for DS during pregnancy and I'm skipping it all this time. But I feel that knowing whether DH was a carrier was important in our decision to have kids naturally. Had he been a carrier we probably wouldn't have had our own kids (on purpose - I would keep my CF baby if we had an accidental pregnancy) since it was a 50/50 shot. But I will say we did start TTC before we got his results back but I didn't actually get pregnant till after we found out he wasn't a carrier. I wasn't overly concerned though - he's Mexican and though CF definately happens in Mexicans, it is less common than being of European descent like myself and he has no family history of the disease.

I would say that I don't agree with your decision not to have your DH tested (I would encourage any spouse of a CFer to be tested) but I understand it. Even if someone didn't care whether their DH was a carrier and would still have kids regardless, I find (for myself) that it is helpful to know the odds.
 
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hopesiris

Guest
We originally had only the basic panel done and they caught my copy of DF508 and DH's copy of DF508. I later had the full panel and was diagnosed with CF. A genetic counselor told us that since we already found DH's mutation and he has no symptoms indicating CF that we could stop the testing there. Amelia is a carrier of DF508 and passed her newborn screen for CF.
 
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hopesiris

Guest
We originally had only the basic panel done and they caught my copy of DF508 and DH's copy of DF508. I later had the full panel and was diagnosed with CF. A genetic counselor told us that since we already found DH's mutation and he has no symptoms indicating CF that we could stop the testing there. Amelia is a carrier of DF508 and passed her newborn screen for CF.
 
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hopesiris

Guest
We originally had only the basic panel done and they caught my copy of DF508 and DH's copy of DF508. I later had the full panel and was diagnosed with CF. A genetic counselor told us that since we already found DH's mutation and he has no symptoms indicating CF that we could stop the testing there. Amelia is a carrier of DF508 and passed her newborn screen for CF.
 
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hopesiris

Guest
We originally had only the basic panel done and they caught my copy of DF508 and DH's copy of DF508. I later had the full panel and was diagnosed with CF. A genetic counselor told us that since we already found DH's mutation and he has no symptoms indicating CF that we could stop the testing there. Amelia is a carrier of DF508 and passed her newborn screen for CF.
 
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hopesiris

Guest
We originally had only the basic panel done and they caught my copy of DF508 and DH's copy of DF508. I later had the full panel and was diagnosed with CF. A genetic counselor told us that since we already found DH's mutation and he has no symptoms indicating CF that we could stop the testing there. Amelia is a carrier of DF508 and passed her newborn screen for CF.
 
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