A: The geneticist we met with after Chase was born told us briefly that our chances of having another child with Ds was 1%...but not truly based on numbers, just that it had to be higher than nothing. I didn't really understand that. Basically, I think that it means that since Ds is a genetic anomoly, and Chase has the regular old fluke-ish Trisomy 21, that our chances don't really change, but they have to assign us a number just because. If anyone else has a better answer than that, I'd love to hear it.
As far as Chase goes, I believe that most males with Ds are sterile. So his chances of passing it on are close to nothing. I have heard stories of women with Ds giving birth to typical babies. I don't know what the real odds are on that, and I am too tired to look up any genetics information just now :)
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I do think that 1 in 100 number is pretty random.
I lost a baby to Turner's syndrome. At that point, my doctors told me that it was a random occurrence, that my odds for having another child with a chromosomal abnormality was 1 in 100--same as the general population.
7 years later we were the 1. John was born with Ds.
I've been playing the lottery lately--still haven't been the one though :(
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