May 5th was our nuchal translucency and everything looked good. It was pretty unnerving to watch them scan eat baby and look at the monitor to see if the measurement was normal (since they told us what they consider normal). After the scan was done, they gave us a simple report stating the measurements on each baby and their gestational age; and verbally reported all was well.
The genetics counsellors called us a couple days later regarding the outcome of the scans, which intially worried Kyra (and later myself before I heard they had called her), and they did some analysis based on measurements and age. They figure in the normal measurements, her age, and normally blood values (which you can't do with triplets), and come up with a percentage of risk for trisomy 13, 18, and 21. Since we can't do the blood test the estimated our likelyhood of trimsomy 13, 18, and 21 at close to 1 in 1000 per syndrome, which made me feel better.
Our next step is to complete our week 18 anatomy scan, which they would like to do early to rule out any major defects that we can reduce if necessary. They told us that we'd likely have to come back later for a complete scan, but they'd like to at least rule out the major defects early, around week 16.
Kyra bought some used baby clothes, they're very cute and I'm excited!
