- Born June 18th, 2007 - Just brought him home

[Guest guest]

Hello to everyone - - I haven't posted here yet - but have been

watching, reading since about January when I found out the baby I was

carrying would (does) have Trisomy 21 (confirmed via Amnio)

we were absolutely devastated and it took quite a while before I could

bring up the courage to really start reading about it and really

reading everyone's stories (both good and bad)

I want to thank everyone here for all their personal story sharing as

it has been a tremendous help to me to know there are such great

support groups out there and that I " m not alone --

we feel so blessed to have with us now - - *we came home

Friday* - and are truly kicking ourselves in the rear end for even

THINKING we had a 'choice' to not bring him into this world, as the

doctors constantly reminded us. It makes me cry to even think I could

have thought that.

But anyway - - I do now have a couple questions as we have been

watching our new son for a few days - - -

the nurses all said he has the 'markers' - so I asked one out of

curiousity what she was seeing as his markers -

she said definately his eyes - which I do agree - they are a bit

almond and closer set - - but she said except for the simian crease

that was about it - - the crease though is ONLY on his left hand!

Is this an oddity?

so far we can't see any other external markers - -

will others become more pronounced as he is growing?

Is there any reason to believe that with the fewer markers, that

possibly he may have mosaic?

we will be doing his genetic testing shortly as well as get him going

with getting an assigned EI counselor -

again I want to thank you all for your sharing as it has helped me

prepare so much better than reading text books.

Kindly

Dekom

Long Island , NY

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