# Chateau de la Tobler

## Tuesday, August 29, 2006

### My June-bug

I'm really not ready to post about our little June-bug in detail yet, but Mema has the scoop. It's okay, it's just hard to know the reality--spina bifida is a severe birth defect any way you look at it, but our little bug has a particularly severe form of it. Anyway, to all my wonderful family, I promise to post all we know soon, but please call Mema for details right now. I'm just not ready to deal with the reality yet. I love you all, and I'm so grateful.
One thing that I want to tell you all--I know it doesn't matter to LaDale right now, and probably never again to Jen and Amy--but all my sisters AND brothers are at a slightly higher risk of having a baby with spina bifida. Instead of one in 1000, the risk for our siblings (Brad's and mine) is two in 1000 (or 1 in 500). As a precaution, for the three months before you try to conceive, and during at least the first trimester, Caren, Telima, LaDale, you should be taking 4mg of folic acid daily, instead of the 0.4mg in a normal pre-natal vitamin. And your OB/GYN should know that your nephew has spina bifida. Just FYI. Love you all.

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