Sorry Sandra,

I posted everywhere but here, I did not see it until I came back to the board and I have been dashing around.  The child I have with swcah has a different father to my baby-9 months old.  It was in the back of my mind through pregnancy with all children that followed onwards of the child diagnosed with swcah.  I guess if there is a possibility (no matter how small) you are still going to worry about it.  However as the chances were so small and I assumed that any child would have the same strain back then (9 mth and longer), I just assumed after the a week or so that they were ok as they were feeding great.  I have breast fed all children onwards of the child with swcah as there was no problem.  I had issues with my swcah son and breastfeeding and attempted this, but after the third or fourth day, he was not taking anything and I inadvertantly assumed that he was averse to my own milk.  Also, I had no idea about breastfeeding either so that didn't help much.  So he was put on the bottle and after the diagnosis I wished that I had perservered or expressed in hindsight.  Not that it would have been difficult with all the other issues I had at that time, namely post natal depression.  It's only now that I am learning that cah comes in different forms within the same family (a possibility) and that is has bothered me.  I haven't bothered with blood tests though.  Even when I had blood tests for us back in 1993 to check the genetic side of things, they did not elaborate back then about which type it was that we all individually carried.  The genetic testing was done seperately as part of the genetic counselling and the results were not analylized by our sons consultant-or if they were-they did not elaborate.  I just had to know that it was genetic at that time and that was most important, as I found it hard to come to terms with at that time.  My reasoning around my other children not being tested is different father and no problem has shown up - but I honestly don't know what I should do about that.  I think that boils down to thinking, if I ask out of the blue all f a sudden now 9 months down the track, that my doctor will laugh!  I don't really know why I don't want to ask.  Feeling like I may be perceived as paranoid for one may be a start.  Feeling that it couldn't happen again is another.  One things for sure, if it did happen,  know what I am looking for now.  :-)

J