Melinda

[Guest guest]

Melinda,

I searched the cfparents archives because I remembered that someone

had done the pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. Here is her post.

Hope you can contact Cindy to get information from her on this

procedure.

Christy

Mom to Mackenzie 4 w/cf and Peyton 10 mo w/o cf

> Hi,

> My name is Cindy and I have an almost 13 year old daughter, Cindy

Lynn,

> with cf. I have 2 sons, (9) and Josh (6) who don't have cf

but are

> carriers. About 4 years ago we decided that we really wanted to

have

> another child and started trying to get pregnant. But my body

didn't

> cooperate, and then we heard about a fertility clinic in a nearby

state

> that could screen embryos for cystic fibrosis (pre-implantation

genetic

> diagnosis), and so we decided to give it a try. The short version

of our

> very long story is that our first IVF was successful. The clinic

> biopsied 8 embryos and transferred 4 embryos that had no genes for

cf,

> and I got pregnant. To our huge shock at the first ultrasound we

found

> out that I was *really* pregnant, and we were having triplets. For

a

> long time we felt like we'd jumped out of the frying pan (cf) into

the

> fire (triplet pregnancy). Our babies were born very early (at 29

weeks)

> but we have been blessed and they're doing great. Things have

finally

> calmed down enough here that I felt like it was time for me to pay a

> little more attention to cf again, so here I am. Also, if anyone

ever

> has any questions about the pre-implantation diagnosis procedure,

I'm

> more than happy to answer any questions or share any info I can.

Things

> are still pretty hectic here so if you do have questions please e-

mail

> them to me at crayz2sew@j... --it's hard to get time to read

> everything some days!!

>

> Cindy

> mom of Cindy Lynn(12wcf), (8no/cf), Josh(5no/cf), ,

Jenna, and

> (almost 1, no cf)