Jesse Ridgway

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    youtuber jesse ridgway and his wife aborted their baby after they found out it had down syndrome

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    Here we go. Thought we were going to see the result. I have to download the official report. Abnormal insight result consistent with trisomy 21. No. What is it? Wait, why are you seeing this? No. Let me see. I can't see it. It says abnormal insight result. Boba Lot showed three chromosome 21 signals consistent with trisomy 21 Down syndrome. Genetic counseling is recommended. Pattern consistent with trisomy 21. Hey. Not the result we wanted to see, guys. I started to get kind of a not good feeling. Just when the results were sitting here, that's why I didn't want to open them. I started to feel really uncomfortable about it. Just kind of in shock, like truly. We talked before this guys about what would we do if we confronted this scenario. Because this was the more likely scenario. We talked about terminating the pregnancy. Obviously, obviously things could change, because this is traumatic, like very traumatic. And I know you guys even watching this, this is traumatic for the whole community I think now that we have a definitive result we talk with these counselors and we gonna have some hard conversations Typically if the initial fish result shows trisomy 21 the final full karyotype or microarray analysis also confirms it in more than 99 of cases It's just all very overwhelming and confusing to navigate. Ashley is almost halfway through this thing. Not saying we forced it, but like the kids seem healthy and there's been stories of where the kid comes out and is like super functional. Functional and so it's like I don't know. This is a lot to digest and we're not really gonna be doing that in this video We just wanted to let you guys in on What the results were Just things have been Pretty dark for a while for us We thought this was gonna be a nice little a little ray of sunshine, and it's not. Sorry to be crying, dude. It's a lot. Oh, man. I bought boy clothes. I was so sure that I was sitting in it. I had the nursery baked out. I was ready. I was ready. I had a stroke. start of our journey you know of the level of just trying to start a family this is how it starts i know it's hard to look at like silver linings but i mean the fact that you can get pregnant is good we weren't sure and it was bro it was instant we don't know why this happens maybe it is a birth control over a decade maybe it is just random genetic sequencing and it glitches, you know, just like cancer cells. Like sometimes it's just, we don't know.