How do you spell relief? N-O-E-X-T-R-A-C-H-R-O-M-O-S-O-M-E-S

Well, it has been a stressful couple of weeks. We haven't posted because we have been too busy trying to distract ourselves from a yucky situation, but thankfully all is now well and we are back on track. Long story short, I got some weirdo blood test results that said we had a 1/4 chance of having a baby with Down Syndrome (normal risk for my age is 1/200; 1/4 is remarkably high. Put it this way: if I actually HAD Down Syndrome myself, my risk would be 1/2, and mine was 1 in 4). So we had to undergo tests to find out for sure, some fun (another ultrasound, where the baby spent a significant portion of time on its head) and some definitely NOT fun (an ouchy test called CVS, and it is nowhere near as fun as the drug store I might add). Then we waited. Friday we found out that the results are completely normal; baby has the normal number of chromosomes, none are missing, and there are no extras. Yay!

So now we can get back to the business of being happy we are having a baby, and worrying about normal things, like how we will never again be able to sit at the bar, or how our house will suddenly be filled with primary-colored crap everywhere you look. Hooray!