Hey... hijacking the thread to ask anyone with experience or knowledge but I guess Tamum in particular, what they know about genetic testing and translocations.
After my recent third m/c we got blood karyotyping done on me, my other half, and on the foetus. They found the baby had trisomy 14, that my husband was normal and that I have a balanced Robertsonian translocation in 13 and 14. Is that how you say it? 45XX t(13,14) - don't know the rest as the annoying consultant wanted to do handholding rather than discuss the genetics.
Anyway, I just wondered what's known about the likelihood of the various outcomes of a pregnancy. I know it varies from person to person, and I'm getting a referral to a genetic counsellor, but a ballpark figure would be dead interesting. And you know, any useful info/experiences anyone has. I'm feeling reasonably lucky: it's no harm to me, and I was sitting there in Regan's clinic yesterday listening to a couple who'd been through like 7 or 8 mcs and still had no reason given. Do any of you guys feel as though, when you go to the consultant and you've had as yet unexplained mc, they kind of treat you as though it would be your fault? I'm quite relieved in a way to have sth wrong with me that is concrete and real and isn't in any way to do with stupid lifestyle stuff. If I'd a pound for every time someone's asked me if I might have brought on a mc by cycling too much, or taking medicine, or blah blah blah... now I have the biggest stick in the world to beat them with.
It's also pretty amazing to know this, because my parents also had trouble to have kids: my mum had 4 early miscarriages before she had me. Sad is that she lay in at the hospital for 8 months when she was pregnant with me, and decided not to try for a second baby because she couldn't see how to look after me if she'd to go back to hospital. Now it seems highly likely that either she or my dad was carrier, and it was total luck that I was OK, nothing to do with lying in. I don't know if she'll like that but I hope she feels like me that it's kind of miraculous to know why we've had so much bother. And I feel slightly like a walking miracle myself. It's so weird! 2 chromosomes stuck together and yet everything seems to work OK.