Liz, I'm glad your scan went well, congrats darl, I'm really feeling
relieved and thrilled for you.

As for your information about the smelter, my goodness 4 people in
one workplace does seem unusual and to be paid out, yes it sounds
highly suspect doesn't it.

I think that perhaps if you gave us a lot more information we could
all start doing some research....the anencephaly network might be a
good place to ask about this too, I wonder if we could start
reaching out overseas to ask about similar instances that people
know of. Fascinating, terrifying stuff.

Don't you hate how rare this condition is meant to be, yet here we
all are......not bloody rare enough is it!

--- In as_ap@..., "Elizabeth" <epsmith@...> wrote:
>
> hey every one,
> Hope you are all doing well. i went to my GP today and got all my
> results back from the scan and bloods and every thing is fine, i
have a
> 1 in 22,478 chance that this baby has downs syndrome so i think
thats
> pretty good odds.
>
> I'm in a bit of a funny state of mind at the moment. Over the
weekend i
> was on cloud 9 knowing that every thing is alright with this bub
so far
> and now today i feel guilty as hell that i'm feeling happy. Here i
am
> still grieving the loss of 2 babies in the past 8 months and yet
over
> the moon that this pregnancy seems to be going so well. I don't
know,
> just a few mixed emotions i guess. Pregnancy hormones not helping
> either.
>
> Well, as the tital says i have found out some thing that i think
is
> rather interesting. Where i live we have alot of big refinaries.
There
> is one place called QAL. Apparently about 5years after they
started up
> (which was a while ago) they payed out 4 families that had given
birth
> to children with no sculls (anencephaly) and told the people to
move
> away and never speak of it again. Well, by the sounds of it some
one
> has spoken about it and its now going around where my husband
works
> (Boyne Smelta). The people that this happened to obviously blammed
the
> enviroment that they were working in ect and the company must have
had
> some reason to believe that this was the cause other wise they
wouldn't
> have payed them out. i want to try to find out more but i don't
know
> where to start looking. i will see if neil can find any thing else
out
> from work and then go from there. I just thought that it was
strange
> that some thing that is so rare happened to 4 families all working
at
> the same place and they all got a pay out because of it.
>
> My kids are being feral so i had better go sort them out and i'll
try
> to get back on soon to reply to Lea's and Vanessa's posts. If i
don't
> get back on tonight please don't hold it against me, it just means
that
> i have passed out from exhaustion. take care every one, talk soon.
>
> love liz xoxoxoxoxoxoxox
>