I don't think it's reasonable to be quite that heated. The evidence about diving and fetal damage is far from overwhelming, but it is suggestive, and it is a very difficult matter to study, as the papers cited in the other thread recognize.
Jennie, the one thing I would ask you to think about is not whether you will lose the baby, because that's unlikely. I would like you think about the burden of raising a brain-damaged or otherwise crippled child (not to mention the impact on the child's life). You may be making a decision for short-term gain that will result in tremendous long-term misery for two people.
Like so many things in diving, it's a risk assessment, except in this case, I don't think you can really know how big the risk to the two of you is that you are taking. But I also know that, when you are young, you feel as though if one door closes, there will never be another one. That just isn't true. It may not come in the way you expected or wanted, or at the time, but if you want something badly enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.
Jennie, the one thing I would ask you to think about is not whether you will lose the baby, because that's unlikely. I would like you think about the burden of raising a brain-damaged or otherwise crippled child (not to mention the impact on the child's life). You may be making a decision for short-term gain that will result in tremendous long-term misery for two people.
Like so many things in diving, it's a risk assessment, except in this case, I don't think you can really know how big the risk to the two of you is that you are taking. But I also know that, when you are young, you feel as though if one door closes, there will never be another one. That just isn't true. It may not come in the way you expected or wanted, or at the time, but if you want something badly enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.