We got Nicolai's autopsy results back on Christmas Eve. What a way to add insult to injury, eh? As suspected, there was no clear cause of death. The genetic analysis could not be performed because they were unable to get the culture cells to grow from the tissue sample. I can't help thinking - what if it was something genetic? Just because he appeared healthy from the autopsy doesn't neccessarily rule out a genetic factor, does it?
So, I guess we will never know; and that is the scariest part. No doctors are able to tell us what kind of increased risk we would have of this happening in another pregnancy, just that it is somewhere between 2x and 10x the risk of the regular population (which is 1 in every 160 babies past 20 weeks gestation). I don't even know what I would change, except probably everything.
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