It seems that, assuming that there is a chance that some of your children will have CAH, you are faced with the same situation those of us who already have CAH children and want more, face. Should we have a child if that child might have CAH. To me, even if the chances are 100% it's still the same question. Since I have 4 children 2 with CAH, and the first with CAH was the second child, our decision is obvious. I see nothing about CAH that makes life not worth living, therefore why would it be a factor in whether to have children.

I remember a few years back a news anchor (who was strickingly beautiful) with a congenital condition that caused her to have deformed hands, was getting ready to have children. For some reason it became the talk of the town whether or not she had the right to "condemn" another person to that kind of life. Ironicly enough, one of the outspoken people who publicly objected to the news anchor was Rosanne (Barr/Arnold/whatever). Which made me wonder if Rosanne had bothered to look in the mirror lately, because she was certainly in a position to pass on some really ugly features, not to mention a whiney disposition and an incredibly annoying voice. In other words, we all have bad traits, we've inhereited from our parents.

On the other hand, right now there is a deaf lesbian couple that are trying to coneive (through artificial insenination) The homosexual part aside, the pertinant factors about what they are doing is that they have searched out a male friend whose deafness is congenital, to father the baby, because they wanted their baby to be deaf. That's obviously going too far.

A final pertinant story we heard on Paul Harvey news. It seems there's a high school that has a star basketball player, a starter and high scorer, who has only one arm. As we listened to it I mentioned to my wife that it seems an undeniable rule of life that those who are handed challenges in life, rise to meat them, and learn to conquor other challenges in the process, and wind up happier that those of us who never had to struggle.

If you are tested an do not carry the gene, then the babies will be fine, adn there would be no worries about the CAH. If you do get tested and are a carrier (or if you don't get tested) then the baby will need to be tested very early in the pregnancy to see if it is a boy or a girl and if he or she has CAH. If she's a girl and has CAH your wife will need to take medicine to offset the effects of the CAH. It he's a boy then your wife probably wouldn't need to take any extra medication, but the doctors would need to be prepared when he is born.