The weight of genetic testing in a family
An excerpt from Held Together: A Shared Memoir of Motherhood, Medicine, and Imperfect Love.
Scott and I held hands as the last few minutes of waiting expanded to rival the anticipation of the days that had already passed. Two weeks ago at this same medical center, our perinatologist had performed a chorionic villus sampling, the procedure to collect the fragment of placenta that would determine our course. I had been …