Son has PAIS (8 months old, seeking advice)
Hi everyone,
I’m a new dad to a gorgeous 8 month old boy. He was born with ambiguous genitalia (we thought we were having a girl based off ultrasounds when my wife was pregnant) and it took them 5 days to assign a gender. They settled on male after blood tests.
Since then, we’ve been linked in with endocrine and urology teams. He was born with a 46 XY karyotype, has all male parts internal and external (albeit small) and hcg response is good. He also has proximal hypospadias and chordee.
We were told today he has PAIS by the endocrine doctor, something I wasn’t expecting. My wife and I got bloods to run genetics on ourselves to confirm this, so it’ll be a few months before we have a definitive answer but it’s what they’re leaning towards. I’ve been doing a bit of reading about it and it’s been a minefield of differing views/opinions, particularly when it came to puberty.
I want to be the best dad possible to my kid as we navigate this. I thought the best thing to do was to reach out to a community with people who may have similar diagnoses as my kid and see if there’s anything they wish their parents had done differently/were grateful that they did as kids when they were in the same boat.
Thanks for reading.
John