Yes -and no. The doctor that told us 1st that based on our gentic testing prior to conception, if the baby ended up with both genes, it would be so mild that if the baby was born prior to the 5 years ago when they did not do newborn testing, the child may go through life with a simple "asthma or chronic bronchitis" dx. This gentic councelor does work in the same office at UMASS as our CF doctor. After Abby was born, and we found out that she did test positive for the 2 genes (despite an amnio that appartenly someone messed up and told me it was negative, but they never actually tested for it...) we ended up with the head of the CF clinic at UMASS as a favor of our pedi. For Abby's 1st whole year - they did 2 sweat tests - the 1st was borderline by 1 ponit and the second was negative, they did a throat culture which only showed e-coli - no PA. The dr kept telling us that he was sure that she would never show any signs or symptoms until the day she had the LL pneumonia. He also tha tday said it was nothing, but since he was seeing her, why not do a routine throat culture. A week later he called me AT WORK to tell me the "bad news". She was put on cipro x2weeks and TOBI for 28 days which she still has about a week left. Her pancreas test came back greater than 500 and the range was 100-200 mild pancreatic insuff. and less than 100 severe pancreatic insuff. The kicker is, and not that I would ever not love abby, but the reason we went to the genetic councelor in the 1st place was if they had told us bad news, like the child could have severe CF, our fertility clinic would have paid for invitro where we would have made sure they embryo was healthy. I sort of have mixed feelings on that, but it is a mute point now anyways.