Dear Medical Professionals

Young girl with Down syndrome in a blue dress wearing a hat and sunglasses

In my opinion, I was lucky that we had a birth diagnosis. If you ask Tim he would disagree – he would have rather known ahead of time. But in a Facebook group, I just read about a parent pregnant and not enjoying her pregnancy because of the repeated urging of doctors to not have…

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Defining Down Syndrome

Black and white photo of a young girl with Down syndrome

“Down Syndrome – It means different things to different people.  For me,  the meaning has evolved over the years as we’ve journeyed through life with Maylee,  my 12-year-old daughter. When Maylee was born,  Down syndrome was a “Curve Ball”.  We didn’t learn that Maylee had Down syndrome until the day she was born.  I remember…

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