DownSyndrome Awareness Month: Real Life With a Child With DownSyndrome
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LisaPosted
Sat 30 Oct 2010 12:00am
As DownSyndrome Awareness Month wraps up, I'd like to share some with final thoughts.
A little over two years ago, my son was born with Downsyndrome. In the early days... journey. I've made my peace with my son having Downsyndrome, with his being different. I adore every inch of him, his body, his heart, and his mind, and I wouldn't change him
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DownSyndrome Awareness Month: Breast Feeding a Baby With DownSyndrome
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LisaPosted
Thu 07 Oct 2010 12:00am
would like to breast feed their new baby with Downsyndrome.
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One of the many widely-held misconceptions about Downsyndrome is that babies with Downsyndrome won't be able to breast feed. This notion, I think, is propagated by medical professionals who, sadly, are still a generation or two behind in the perceptions they have about DownsyndromeRead on »
Have abortions of babies with Downsyndrome gone down?
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Leticia V.Posted
Fri 10 Dec 2010 10:55am
(and raise the birth rate) of children with Downsyndrome.
This article seems to confirm my dearest hopes; to save our precious children from death.
The study indicates that there are about 6,000 diagnoses of Downsyndrome each year in the United States. One in every 691 babies is born with Downsyndrome. This is an increase from the previously reported
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Another Couple with Downsyndrome to Wed- Get it Down 31 for 21: Post 11
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JanPosted
Sat 13 Jun 2009 12:06am
Bernadette and Josh to Wed
Thursday, 10/11/07
Couple with Downsyndrome prepare to wed
They expect their love to transcend limitations
By CLAUDIA PINTO..., but they were meaning institution," Resha said. "Back then, there was no expectation that people with Downsyndrome would do anything but sit and vegetate."
Resha's daughter
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A new blood test to detect Down’s syndrome in pregnancy
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Emanuela ..Posted
Sun 07 Sep 2008 8:02pm
A test that can detect Down’s syndrome from the blood of pregnant women has raised the prospect of routine screening for the condition for every expectant mother who wants it and should be available in around 5 years.
At the moment a test to check for Down’s syndrome is only carried out on women who are at high risk such as being over the age
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UK politicians form All Party Parliamentary Group on Down’s Syndrome
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WelcometoIllinoisPosted
Thu 27 Aug 2009 11:05pm
Some time ago I lamented the fact that the UK didn’t have an equivalent of the US Congressional DownSyndrome Caucus.
The Down’s Syndrome Association reports that has now been put right with the formation of All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Down’s syndrome including 26 MPs, the DSA and DownsEd “to inform MPs and Lords about many
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Down’s syndrome and cancer
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WelcometoIllinoisPosted
Fri 12 Jun 2009 6:43pm
a report explaining why people with Down’s syndrome are less susceptible to cancer.
“A gene on the extra chromosome that causes Down’s syndrome helps to protect those... on how a better understanding of Down’s syndrome may aid breast cancer therapy.
More on this from the BBC, MIT Technology Review, and Forbes.
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Down’s syndrome and health care reform
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WelcometoIllinoisPosted
Thu 13 Aug 2009 7:33pm
Here are some excerpts from a statement by the US National DownSyndrome Congress on Health Care Insurance Reform. They really speak for themselves:
“People with Downsyndrome have been and continue to be discriminated against with regard to access to health insurance, solely on the basis of the diagnosis of Downsyndrome and without consideration
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UK press wakes up to Down’s syndrome statistics
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WelcometoIllinoisPosted
Tue 27 Oct 2009 11:02pm
Back in April I reported on the latest statistics on Down’s syndrome births in England and Wales from the UK’s National DownSyndrome Cytogenetic Register, noting that I hadn’t seen any reporting of the latest statistics in the mainstream press.
Six months, and an article in the British Medical Journal, later and Down’s syndrome stories
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