What if…part II

Baby mine, little girl, Precious daughter, tiny pearl, You are mine, through all time, Til the ending of the world. Years and years ago, there was a controversial play staged around the country.  It depicted the turmoil that would erupt if couples could determine while their baby was in the womb that he would be…

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A man with a purpose

Travis loves caring for Pete While obsessively reading everything I could get my hands on regarding Down syndrome when Kelly was still a toddler, I came across an intriguing (and heartbreaking) paper from a professional journal entitled:  The Curious Case of an Overfunctioning Mongoloid. At that point the article was about 30 years old, but the…

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Life..with Down syndrome

Somebody else wrote the blog for today.  Go to http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/12/04/a-chosen-child.html for an exceptionally honest, insightful, and lovely article about the decision to have a baby you know will have Down syndrome.

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