Laura, I absolutely agree with you. My daughter's CAH was a surprise to us until she was born with ambiguous genitalia. It really isn't that big a deal. I cannot imagine choosing not to have Karen just to avoid having surgery. She is an absolute joy. Our lives, our other children--everything would be so much less without her. I used Dex with her little sister and REGRET it every day--I didn't research well enough and now we have to live with the fear of what may surface when she is an adult--there hasn't been any research done into the long-term consequences (adult--ie fertility, breast cancer and so forth) of exposure to dex in the womb. I didn't use dex with our last (sixth) child --who did have CAH, and felt wonderful about the decision from beginning to end. None of these decisions is easy for us; we each need to choose what is right for our own family and our own children. In our case, we felt that we could see CAH as a "horrible disease" and stop living because of fear, or we could see it as a controllable condition and live in faith. When I think of all that we would have missed if we'd given up having children after Karen! Three more wonderful little people came into our lives, each one very different and very precious. Life is just way too beautiful to spend cowering in a closet. Just my thoughts, laurie