{"id":19200,"date":"2021-10-13T14:11:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/?p=19200"},"modified":"2021-10-13T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:18:12","slug":"dear-medical-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/2021\/10\/13\/dear-medical-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Medical Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my opinion, I was lucky that we had a birth diagnosis. If you ask Tim he would disagree &#8211; 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 her baby. [Trying to convince her] That the baby&#8217;s life will not be a quality one and they will have struggles. This breaks my heart because I believe Monroe has a quality life, and yes she has struggles, but we all do. I believe because of her our whole family is better. I hear these stories over and over in the Down syndrome community. I wish the medical professionals that continue to encourage folks to end their pregnancy because of Down syndrome would walk through GiGi\u2019s Playhouse. I wish they would meet Monroe and have a CONVERSATION with her\u2026maybe they would make a different recommendation and say, \u201cOh my goodness, you are SO lucky your child has Down syndrome!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christina Ziga-Budd, GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse Canton Board member and parent<\/p>\n<p>October 2021<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19199\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/files\/2021\/10\/Monroe-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Young girl with Down syndrome in a blue dress wearing a hat and sunglasses\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/files\/2021\/10\/Monroe-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/files\/2021\/10\/Monroe.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my opinion, I was lucky that we had a birth diagnosis. If you ask Tim he would disagree &#8211; 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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1472,"featured_media":19199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[390,451,389,447,446,10,438,449,450,448],"class_list":["post-19200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness","tag-acceptance","tag-advocacy","tag-awareness","tag-birth","tag-diagnosis","tag-down-syndrome","tag-down-syndrome-awareness-month","tag-medical","tag-medical-professionals","tag-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/canton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}