I thoroughly enjoyed your ability to look outside the box for any and all potential diagnoses on this discussion post. Trisomy 18 also known as Edwards syndrome is one potential diagnosis for the child and is one that I had not heard of. When these babies are born they immediately are taken to the intensive care unit (“What is Trisomy,” n.d.). This condition is thought to be very life threatening and only, “10 percent or more may survive to their first birthdays” (“What is Trisomy,” n.d.). In order to diagnose this condition, “a sample of the baby’s DNA is extracted from a blood sample or other bodily cells or tissue and is cultured to examine a picture of the chromosomes called a karyotype” (“What is Trisomy,” n.d.). There is a multitude of
