When I’m asked how many children I have I answer three, but I think four. Our second child, Aoife, was triploid, she had three of each chromosome instead of the usual two. This is different to trisomy, an extra copy of a single chromosome, Aoife had an extra copy of every chromosome. A baby with triploid is doomed, almost all miscarry, usually early in the pregnancy. The few that survive to birth die soon after …
Anti-choicers: You cannot argue with this, I’m sorry. Would you like to try? Don’t try. You can’t.
