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Old 06-01-2004, 11:26 PM
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An amnio can't be done until ~16-18 weeks (and then takes at least a week for the cultures to grow enough to do a chromosome count) . CVS (chorionic villi sampling) is done at ~8 weeks and is a much more rapid form of testing (but I'm not sure it's that instantaneous). On the other hand, she has enough $$$ to do the most exotic forms of reproductive technology so if they're releasing that it's boy/girl, then it's likely that she had selective IVF and knew the sex of the zygotes being implanted... and if both "took", voila, one of each... unless, of course, one of the implanted eggs didn't implant and she really has identical twins (there's a higher risk of an IVF egg splitting into twins-- in the NICU, we call it the revenge of Mother Nature). Can't tell that this soon what she really has unless she's further along than she's reporting....
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