D&C tissue testing

Court1 · November 2009

For those of you who have had a D&C and then had testing done on the tissue...what do they tell you? What can they tell you. I saw one gals siggy with an earlier m/c who knew the sex. Is that part of what they tell you?

Mrs.EmmaLouise · November 2009

Depends on what the doctor ordered. Usually they do not to chromosome testing unless its a repeat loss, but I think they may do it for you since yours was a late loss. For mine they only did a pathology report, which just tests to make sure the tissue is 'normal'.

Unless you call to ask the doc what testing they ordered you'll have to wait until your post op appt. ((HUGS)) and happy turkey day

Scout05 · November 2009

The first loss, we asked for testing, but they were unable to determine anything; they could not "get the cells to grow."

With Pumpkin, they determined that it was Trisomy 16.

Both times, we asked not to know the gender.

Clerk9 · November 2009

This is good to know. I may need to get a D & C (my body doesn't seem to want to let the LO go) & I think it would help me to know a little about him/her, if they're able to tell.

candylies · November 2009

We didn't ask for it but the dr did go ahead and have chromosome testing done. Found out LO had turner's syndrome, meaning it was missing a sex chromosome. It ended up being good to find out cause now we know we do not have an increased risk of m/c again.

teachinbr · November 2009

I had genetic testing done at my D&C. Only found out information about one baby (was a twin pregnancy). Found out sex of the baby (girl) and that the baby had trisomy 16. My OB told me the sex of the baby without asking me, so if you do not want to know, I would make sure your doctor is aware of that.

wheelber · November 2009

We had the tissue tested with our 2nd loss. I was upfront with the dr (and everytime we discussed it) that I did NOT want to know the sex of the baby. For some reason to me this just makes it a little more sad. dunno??? But I was also that way when they asked me if I wanted a death certificate just minutes before they performed the D&C..... it's way too much for me.

GL and so sorry for your loss (((((HUGS)))))

pepomntpat · November 2009

They did a pathology report to make sure the baby was a "normal product of conception." That is all it told us.

My grief counselor asked me if I had a feeling one way or another about the sex of the baby and she told me to go with it and name her if it would help me. It does help to talk about her by name, but I do not "know" factually if our baby was a boy or a girl.

nanalovesjason · November 2009

I've had 3 missed miscarriages- for all of my 3 pregnancies. We did chromosomal testing on our last D&C which was October 1. Our son had Trisomy 13. And yes I am soooooo thankful to the gender of our son, it gave me an unexplained piece of happiness out of the whole situation, since I'll never know anything else about him.?

Since He had Trisomy 13, my husband and I did chromosomal testing. Turs out I'm a mutant. My husband is normal, but of my pair of chromosome 13 and 14, one chromatid from thirteen and one from 14 have translocated attaching themselves together at the centromere. so I have one normal 13, one normal 14, and one 13-14 that are attached to eachother. Our baby inherited a normal 13 from each of us, a normal 14 from my husband and the mutant 13-14 combination from me instead of another normal 14 from me. Thus he had 3 copies of chromosome 13 which is fatal.?

I can't recommend chromosomal testing enough to you. An explanation is THE best closure. I love my angel baby.?

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