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Down Syndrome

Finding out your baby has special needs during a pandemic

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Shelter in place has become a cocoon where our family has slowly let this diagnosis of Down syndrome sink in. By Maggie Shafer

April 15, 2020 Culture, Family

Yes, I know what it’s like to have a child with a delay

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We can try to compare miseries, heartaches, injustices but, in the end, it becomes impossible. By Diana Kupershmit

February 19, 2019 Parenting Challenges

The day my daughter told us her disability is love

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I’m terrified that my teenager, who has Down syndrome, won’t ever find real love—and also that she will, but that it won’t be the right kind. By Amy Silverman

January 17, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Measuring the baby’s ears

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My unborn kid had a 1 in 214 chance of having Down syndrome. Those seemed like pretty good odds.
By Amy Silverman

August 30, 2016 Books, Parenting Challenges
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