Thanks - for this I have contacted my local NAS branch just waiting for someone to come back. It just feeling in that lost stage and wanting someone to chat to.
On the postive side I am orginally from Gloucester and my partner from Cornwall but we met and were living in the South East for the last 10-20 years.
We moved to Bristol in January as a halfway house so family could spend more time with him.
My mum is only 45 mins away although I have to say when I spoke to her on the phone about it this week - it nearly broke her heart. Next weekend - bank holiday my partners mum is coming to stay and we will talk to her about it too - this will be very difficult as he is her only grandchild - and she was the only one of her friends not to have a grandchild till he was born.
My other issue is that I work fulltime, but we have both talked about how we could manage. I am going to be speaking to the boss next week.
This may sound weird but my biggest fear was having a child with a disability, as I had watched my mum struggle so hard with my brother and she was brilliant. I worried that I wouldn't be able to cope as well as she did. I fell pregnant at 37 and had all the tests for Downs etc not knowing that ASD was a higher risk anyway.
I actually feel OK about it at the moment, it's my partner who is struggling, I think he is trying to adjust his future expectations from what he thought they might be, and the problem with that is this is not something that can be easily quantified.
I feel strangely postive and just trying to read as much information as I can about the treatments as I am very aware of being fobbed off by medical professionals. My mother fought very hard for my brother and I would be proud to do the same for my son.