Posts tagged second trimester
Screenings & SneakPeeks & Scans, Oh My!
Screenings & SneakPeeks & Scans, Oh My!

In this blog post, I’m sharing context from our journey through pregnancies, why we had chosen *not* to do a genetic screening earlier in this pregnancy, and why we had chosen to have an anatomy scan last week, when I was 22 weeks pregnant.

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Preparing for BirthShay GabrielNIPT, NIPS, genetic screening, gender test, sex chromosomes, chromosomal abnormalities, anatomy scan, ultrasound, informed choice, informed consent, pregnancy, pregnant, second trimester Comment
Shay's Got News...

Our journey through pregnancy, loss, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, & now pregnancy again — it's taught me (still teaching me) SO MUCH. One takeaway? It's true what they say — no two pregnancies are alike! And I am not the same woman.

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