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F0xFiree t1_ivyz2yx wrote

Bingo. Also, plenty of women who have turners syndrome don’t even find out they have it until later in life when they’re ready to have children. They seek medical help when they have trouble conceiving, and this is what usually leads to the discovery of turners in the first place.

My situation was not entirely unrelated to the described scenario above, however I was actually already newly pregnant with my second child and my prenatal blood work had come back with some concerning markers that eventually led to a diagnosis of turners syndrome in myself. I would likely have never found out had I not gotten pregnant again. I’m pretty short (which is one big side effect of having turners) but women being short runs in my family on both sides already and the type of testing that had started all of this for me wasn’t routine when I had been expecting my first child. I could have probably never questioned it or other things tied to my diagnosis. Life’s funny like that I guess.

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