As adoptive parents, many people are not aware that newborn screening for genetic orders exists. If you have adopted a child, have you spoken to your doctor about having the expanded newborn screening profile done on your child?
Adult Adoptees - have you spoken with your doctors about testing your own children through expanded newborn screening? If you are a carrier, you can pass these on to your children, however, there are tests that can be done to help identify if you or your children are carriers.
For those who know our story, our son's life was saved thru Newborn Screening. For us, we were fortunate that the bio-family told us of the positive result of the test, but in some cases medical info from birth is not available to adoptive parents or adult adoptees.
So I post this question to ask if you are aware that the tests are available?
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