I mean, you know, if there's one interesting thing that's come out of this you think that the technology that they can pick these things up is just amazing, and I think we feel like very lucky that that's been the case and we've been able, that they've picked it up so early at the sort of, you know, I suppose the tenth week of the pregnancy.
So, that has helped us. We got used to the idea that there was a problem. And I think you talk about antenatal screening, but a lot of parents don't find things like this out until the baby is born and the baby goes blue or something after birth. So we were very lucky because, in the loosest form of the word, but we were lucky because we knew for a long time. We had a lot of time to get used to it.
You said you're very grateful that you found out, so presumably next time, if there's a next time, would you make all the same screening decisions or is there anything you'd do differently?
I don't think so. I think we're probably now a special case because of what's happened to us before, so we'll come into the next time, having, not having to look so much stuff up. I think, I don't think we'd have changed any of the decisions we made. You know, we came to those decisions with all the facts at our finger tips, and I don't think we made a wrong decision, because we've got a wonderful son now out of it.
But we, I don't know, I just don't think we would've done. I think that knowledge to be able to make those decisions stood us in good stead and I just don't think we'd do anything differently. Maybe I'd encourage, you know, if there were another, a fetal scan, a cardio scan, that I would, I'd maybe ask them to expand a bit more.
You know, I wouldn't feel as intimidated maybe as you do when you go up to a big hospital in London about asking questions. So you know, I would certainly go in there with a attitude "I'd like to know this, this and this," and I think doctors respect that honesty. |
