Patricia Schweinfurth was already a mom of four when she became pregnant with baby Joseph. But this time, she had a hunch ...

Or closer to 90? Some believe that just by asking the question, we send the message to the pregnant woman that keeping her baby with Down syndrome is a radical act that will set her outside the ...

It's still just one day at a time: Raising a baby with Down syndrome, or any baby with special needs, doesn't have to be the hardship many people believe. Learn how one working mother and her ...

As a lifelong overachiever, I’d never questioned the importance of IQ—until I had a child with Down syndrome.

When Rachel Lowder's routine 'combined screening' pregnancy test came back as a 1 in 9,500 chance that her baby would have Down's syndrome, she said she "never gave [it] a thought after that" and, ...

They said they had a baby girl for me. Her name was Alba and she was 30 days old. She had Down syndrome and she had been abandoned by her biological mother. She had also been rejected by more than ...

When prenatal tests revealed Courtney Baker’s baby had Down Syndrome, her doctor recommended she have an abortion. He said it would decrease her “quality of life” significantly to have such ...

"The thing that many people don’t realise is that there are a lot more similarities bringing up a child with Down’s Syndrome than there are differences. "He's been brought up in exactly the same way ...

When pregnant television newsreader Fiona Wilson was told, following a routine scan, that she had more chance of winning the Lottery than having a baby with Down's syndrome, she felt reassured ...

The majority of families having a child with Down syndrome do not exhibit pathology as a consequence. A baby with Down's Syndrome will need all the care, support, comfort, and love in the world ...

"Children with Down syndrome need love ... I learned that by putting my baby first, they grow in love and confidence and develop just like typical babies. That way they live a regular life ...

"Jaimie can do anything that she sets her mind to." Sixteen years ago, Nicola Enoch was certain she did not want a baby with Down's syndrome. Pregnant at 39, she found out there was a higher ...