Many of you may not of heard of (ROB) Robertsonian Translocation but its common in woman who don’t even know they have it.
Miscarriage And Robertsonian Translocation – My Story
I found out I had it through my sister. She fell pregnant young and had two miscarriages and went to the doctors to see if they could do tests to see why she was suffering them.
They told her that she had to have 3 miscarriages in a row before they can do any tests. She later found out she was pregnant again but her pregnancy was normal and had a healthy little boy.
When her son was a year old she went onto become pregnant for the 4th time and unfortunately she miscarried. My mom persuaded her to go back to the doctors to demand tests but as before they all said no, except there was one doctor who knew there was something wrong and transferred my sister through to the hospital, which specialises in Genetics.
She had her tests done and 2 weeks later she got her results that she had Robertsonian Translocation. Doctors asked my mom if she wanted to be tested as if she had it there was a chance that my mums other children could have it. Mums results come back negative.
Me and my two brothers still got offered to have the tests done. I had the test done and 4 weeks later I still had no results, I knew something was wrong. I got that dreaded phone call to say I had the same as my sister.
This is normal if one of your parents has the Genetic but if none of your parents have it its uncommon that more than one sibling would get it.
My dad refused to have tests done so to this day we are unsure if he has it.
What is Robertsonian Translocation:
The Robertsonian traslocation is when part of 13 attaches to 14 or other way round, if this happens the baby will not survive as there is to much of one of the chromasones, as we need a balance of 13 and 14.
How I felt finding out:
I felt so crap when I found out what I had, I was at work when I got the phone call so didn’t tell no one till I finished. My family where so supportive and telling me everything would be fine and to look at my sister who had a Gorgeous little boy.
My partner at the time was so un supportive and put a big strain on our relationship. We had been together for nearly 4 years when I found out, I really needed him at that point as I was at the lowest point of my life as all I dreamed about was becoming a Mum and having an amazing pregnancy like my cousins ect.
Me and my ex started arguing all the time about it, he never even mentioned having children until this point. He the started telling me and family/friends that I was ruing his life by not been able to give him children (even though he knew there was a 70/30 chance of him still having them). 5 month after I found he ended our relationship due to my genetics.
At this point I didn’t no what to do I had spent 4 years of my life with this man, I was 12 when I started dating him so he was my only serious relationship. I thought I would never meet anyone else and never be able to try for a family, I started rebelling going out every weekend wasting my money on Alcohol.
About 6 months after my relationship ended I met a really nice guy at college, he wanted to go on dates and start a relationship ect but I was to scared as what had happened 6 month previous was still at the back of my mind.
After 4 weeks of pestering I finally agreed to go on a date with him, he was so lovely on our first date and he opened up to me telling me how he had an eye condition ect which was genetic.
On our second date I knew I had to tell him, this was either going to make our relationship or end it before it even started. Luckily for me he said that didn’t bother he has there was still a high chance of us becoming a family.
7 Months later he proposed to me (yes I no it was soon but he had by then joined the armed forces), a month later we had a shock I found out I was pregnant on the pill.
With my Translocation, the risk sector was 0-10 weeks, this put a massive strain on our pregnancy as we were constantly worrying about what was going to happen, with this translocation I got scanned every 2 weeks. My pregnancy went past week 10 so a big weight had been lifted from my shoulders. But unfortunately at 12 weeks plus I lost our baby, not due to Translocation.
Having a translocation like mine doesn’t stop you from living life to the full yes more precautions when you’re pregnant but that’s it.
You get those who aren’t supportive and think you’re a failure but you have those who are going to be supportive 100% like my fiancé, we are looking to the future now and everything happens for a reason.
My story is basically to say if you have had a few Miscarriages and doctors are saying you cant have test just keep going back to them and pestering them as there is many translocations out there to do with pregnancy that we have not heard of.
Specialist say that woman who have it could go on and have 4 children before they have there first miscarriage where as some woman may have one or 2 before having a child.
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