Quote Originally Posted by Dazzle View Post
The health of your child is a major worry when pregnant. In my experience, the hormones rushing around my body put the safety of my unborn baby at the forefront of my mind for the whole nine months (and for some time after). So in Leanne and Michelle's shoes I'd also be desperate to know if there was a possibility of something serious being amiss.
But if he did the test and it turned out he had inherited it the chance of his children having the condition goes from 25% to 50%, which I would imagine even more worrying. He certainly shouldn't have refused to go to the doctors, they need to know more details about the condition and get the facts. They know it's a possibility anyway. As I said once you know the result of a test you can't un-know it, so you've got to make sure that the decision to find out is right for you. Most people with this condition are not born with the symptoms and there is nothing they can do to prevent the condition either, so just the possibility of having the condition should mean that those symptoms are being looked out for. Knowing for certain will not change this unless it turns out to be negative for the condition, it only allows you to be certain that you will eventually develop the condition, you still don't know when.