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And to already have a deal in place for exclusive first photos of the baby!

Lynn could write a book on how to make your kids stars. She created two stars out of her three children - pretty good. ...

Just a FWIW

Lynn Spears' book on parenting has been put on hold by the publisher.

SORRY, I meant to search here on Downsyn as i think this question and others related have been brought before. I apologize you meant google as sometimes a google search can ruin your day!!!!

In Eliza's Easter Seals playgroup with have some new kids who are identical twins who have autism. Last week they brought their Feldenkrais therapist with them. I was chatting with her for a bit and ...

If you do a search you'll find several topics on boys with Ds and their penises. They do tend to be on the smaller side, and maybe he is having one but it's getting stuck in the fat pad so it's hard ...

I don't think previous babies affect your blood results. It's probably what Christina said, they raised your odds. Now previous fetal cells can results in a wonky CVS but that's pretty rare.

Eliza had polycythemia at birth too - they said something about a rush of red blood cells sometimes coming from the placenta or something. She got a transfusion of saline and it cleared up. Not tha ...

Praying that this is the one!!!! Sticky vibes!!!! I know the progesterone can sometimes be the ticket.

As to the relatives, my mom was the same way. I think it came from a place of fear for her. ...

What a cutie!!! All of your kids are absolutely adorable.

Happy Birthday Sweet William!

I am going by memory on this but i thought he was saying there were two types. The one that is regressive is what he is referring to in the quote "People with DS have autism due to a failure of ...

Hello all,
Some of you know i am pregnant with twins - thanks so much for all the congrats! It's been a bumpy road sometimes to get her but we are all doing really well at this point.

Today I was ...

So glad to hear the baby is growing and the cyst isn't!!!

Eliza is 2.5 and though she can walk across a room she is by no means a full time walker. One of her buddies is 4 days older and has been walking regularly since about 2. It all really depends on th ...

Ibby your whole family is in my prayers. That'a a lot going on. Check in when you can but so many of us are going to be thinking of you all!

Liz

Both are U/Ss. The nucleal fold test is done before 13weeks. My insurance basically paid for it with a blood draw equaling the enhanced screen. I haven't talked to insurance about the fetal echo ye ...

The thing i like about the nucleal fold test (which i didn't know before) is if you have a measurement over 3.0 it could be a chromosomal anomoly but more inportantly it could be a cardiac issue and t ...

LOL - I do vacuum up a new pug about every two weeks.

Good luck with your choice.

I can't give you advice about a puppy, but having dogs has been wonderful for Eliza. Our oldest "children" are two pugs. Not hypoallergenic in the least, but i have NEVER ever heard of a p ...

We have not gone yet with Eliza because we feel our team has us pretty well covered and all of her people are familiar with Ds. But i did go to the informational meeting when they opened the clinic a ...

Here's our recent experience. In the beginning i went back and forth from doing no testing to CVS to Amnio. Not for termination but to the need to know. Now i am pregnant with twins so it changes t ...

We have let caregivers go based on gut feeling before. You want someone you are 100% confident in and trust completely. It's your children. You just say it's not working. If i had to get cameras t ...

A very similar thing has heppened to a friend of mine. I don't know where you are in CA but she got an advocate from this place and they really helped her. I believe it's sliding scale:

Community ...

That is great news! And OMG is she just the cutest little thing!!!!!

Yes, there is no unbiased media unless you read only the AP wires and even in them you can find bias. The media definitely has their favorites, but i also think they like a good story so they like th ...

I have 4 friends/aquantances who have kids with Ds who all entered or were going to enter kindergarten this year so it's been the topic of lots of conversations. Based on these conversations and the ...

I have heard that the director left out a lot of the anti-Catholic/religious stuff that was found in the books.

You don't have to put it down for privacy issues if you are concerned about it, but i would put something like you want to talk to the leader and mention tips for the leader in helping Laurie out. Li ...

Eliza is hopefully at the tail end of this nasty bug. Half of Walker's class has had it. I have found that Eliza will accept a food - we were doing chicken noodle soup for awhile and then if she thr ...

It could be the enhanced screen which is blood test at about 12 weeks and nucleal fold. The quad screen does that and then a later blood test - so if she had two blood tests it was the quad. The lev ...

Besides talking to the ped. about some meds a couple of suggestions. I am guessing he's in a crib, so you could prop up one side with a big wedge pillow. We run a cool mist humidofier full blast in ...

I cringe to think what it's going to be like if it's Hillary vs. Rudy. You have to egomaniacs who will do or say anything to win, slinging tons of mud at each other, when basically they share pretty ...

I am a political junkie for sure, but am really not even the slightest bit excited about anyone. If i had to vote tomorrow it would probably be for Ron Paul but i don't know if this country could han ...

I read somewhere that postal service workers are not allowed to accept cash but can accept small gifts.

Last year I gave therapists who i knew enjoyed wine a bottle. For others gift cards. This ...

Come on Chelle, fess up who you got Very Happy

I remember doing this last time around and i always get someone with like 2% of the vote.

This time I got Barak, Christopher Dodd and Bill Richardson - t ...

Something that may be interesting is to see if any other groups have stats or have gone about trying to collect them. I was talking awhile back to a mom whose son has dwarfism and she knew prenatally ...

Sorry about the surgery, but very happy the baby is doing great. I hope you can get some relaxation and enjoy the final stretch of your pregnancy!

Eliza only takes Miralax in dire emergencies (like after days with no BMs). And she's never needed more than 1/2 of the adult dosage (usually 1/4 adult dosage works.) She also has an anal fissure is ...

My MIL was like that in the beginning. Actually worse. We took a pretty strong approach. My DP let her mom know that we would not tolerate rude comments about Eliza and we were perfectly willing to ...

Hi Jenny,
Good for you! I am live in your neighboring county of Marin and we have a very active Special Olympics program out of the College of Marin if that helps. Ages 5 - adult and a bunch of spo ...

First thing that popped into my mind was Thyroid, but if that checks out my recommendation (and this was recommended to me by my acupuncturist when i was going through something similar last year) is ...