hi o, Liesbeth and Torsten

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Nicolas,

Pre-implantation diagnose method means that the conception and diagnose (CF

or not ?) of the embryo happens artificially outside the uterus before the

pregnancy exists. Your wife would have to go through a cycle of hormonal

stimulation to produce several eggs (I don't know the correct words in

english -sorry- 'ovulation' in French) after which they will be picked up

from her body and conception will take place in the lab with your sperm,

like they do with couples who have infertility problems. The different

embryos will be tested for CF mutations and only the no-CF or carrier

embryos will be placed again in the uterus with a 20% chance of pregnancy

two weeks later. In this way you avoid having to interupt a pregnancy.

However, a neonatal test is still done at 13 weeks pregnancy because of the

1-2% rate of mistakes. Do you know the mutations of Timothé ? Also for this

procedure, the exact mutations have to be known. In Belgium, this procedure

is only done in Brussels (VUB). In France, it may also be the case that not

every hospital is specialised in the method.

As I said, we didn't opt for this method but we spoke to two couples. One

has twins (no CF), the other one tried twice the method but didn't get

pregnant. They had two other girls (no CF) in the natural way with the

neonatal test, after their boy wCF.

I have some more information at home. Some of it may be in Dutch but I don't

mind translating it in French for you. If you would like it faxed, you can

let me know.

I live in Leuven (20 km form Brussels) and work in Brussels.

Bye for now

Liesbeth

mom to (2wCF) and Kasper (11 months woCF)

> Re: hi o, Liesbeth and Torsten

>

> thank you for your answer !

> I am on the french list muco-fr ( same as )

> And I have a question, for future :

> what is " pre-implantation diagnostic method " ?

> My wife is very interested ? ( because of our mutations, neonatal

> test would be very difficult and long...)

> Thank you very much

> Where do you live precisely ?

> Nicolas

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> > Nicolas,

> >

> > wcf means with CF, wocf means without CF.

> > 's mutations are double delta f 508. We were lucky to know

> both

> > mutations when we thought of having a second child. In our case a

> neonatal

> > test would give a almost 100 % correct answer the baby will or will

> not have

> > CF. So we had the test(CVS) at 13 weeks pregnancy and were lucky.

> Kasper is

> > not even a carrier ! I must admit I did not sleep the night before

> we went

> > to the hospital for the results and we hadn't told anybody about my

> > pregnancy until after the test. We also have been thinking of the

> > pre-implantation diagnostic method but in the end opted for the

> natural way.

> >

> > Normandy : that's nice ! Which French list are you on ? Is

> Valérie

> on the

> > same one ?

> >

> > Liesbeth

> > mom to (2wCF) and Kasper (11 months woCF)

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