The Importance of DNA Testing in Pregnancy

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When she was very early in pregnancy I went to have a test which most people have to find out about the sex of their baby because it's incredibly much more reliable than just looking on a scan. It also tests for all the sort of chrome zone abnormalities that can happen. So there'd been a year of me trying all the other embryos we'd made which time I was thinking our embryo could have been born to somebody. And as it all turned out it was just a lab mistake. My son is entirely both of his allotted parents but there was a good few weeks during which I was outside of legal precedent outside. The rectically misogynistic thing I've ever quite loved. Yeah and they

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to journalist and writer Alexandra Heminsley, author of Some Body to Love. After infertility treatment, a challenging pregnancy and a sexual assault, Alex found her relationship drifting apart for reasons she couldn’t fully understand. But when her partner finally disclosed that they wanted to transition to being a woman, Alex had to come to terms with something she never expected: being part of a LBTQIA+ family. In this conversation, she explores her compassionate response to her former partner’s needs, how it has changed her viewpoint on life, and how life can be remade in the face of the unexpected.

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