Babies. The End.

I've been reading a lot about different kinds of genetic counseling since I started here. Coming in, I was the most interested in prenatal counseling (the counseling you give a couple who's trying to get pregnant or may have a baby at risk), and I must say that even after learning about cancer genetics, metabolic genetics, and pediatric genetics, I still left my heart in prenatal.

There's some facet of prenatal counseling that seems more hopeful than in the other fields. There's a couple, excited and anxious to have a baby, but worried that something might go wrong. Whether they have health problems or are perfectly healthy, I adore babies and would love to work in their proximity. I feel like I would be more passionate about my work if I focused on prenatal counseling; it tugs at my heart and makes me want to solve all problems so babies and their families would never have to suffer. That said, I also feel strongly about cancer genetics because of my mom, so that's still on the table as well.

Tomorrow I start working with session transcripts, I think, and on Thursday is the conference. More later!