Cross-cultural marriage pregnancy - tests required?
- 10-10-2006, 07:39 PM #9Registered User
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Originally Posted by bekyboo44
- 10-10-2006, 09:03 PM #10Registered User
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Hi,
If your husband is only half Jewish and you are not Jewish at all then there is no need to be tested.
Tay Sachs is caused by a gene, carried mainly by Ashkenazi Jews.
There are other genetic tests- I shall have to ask my husband again what they are.
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You can check out, www.jewishgeneticscenter.org
The best thing to do is ask your ob, most tests are only reccomended for parents who are both Jewish.
- 10-10-2006, 10:36 PM #12Registered User
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thank you! have now found some info that seems to indicate that Tay Sachs is the most common one, and that in a jewish-non-jewish couple there is only a 1 in 30,000 chance that the baby would be affected. So in a half-jewish-non-jewish couple, it would be lower again. Bottom line, no test, hurrah! One less thing to worry about...
My blog: Preggers in Honkers
- 10-11-2006, 06:34 AM #13Registered User
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cinnamon - your white husband should have an AIDS test??? Because somehow he is more at risk than all those local men visiting prostitutes over the border every weekend? I would have given the doctor a good piece of my mind and found another one sharpish. That's on a par with the doctor at Tsan Yuk asking me (unmarried, and yes, white) if, being unmarried, I only had one sexual partner...
What do people get taught here in school about other nationalities??? Actually please don't answer, I can guess.
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My mother-in-law told my husband when we were dating that because I had large breasts (which are not large, but average for a caucasian person) that I would be after him for sex all the time. Needless to say he is disappointed that the myth is untrue!!
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