by Jane Thurston | May 15, 2014 | Jane Thurston: Down Syndrome Days
Mothers know things about their children. Call it intuition, a message from God, or “a great idea that just came to me” – sometimes a mother just knows. What a relief! Because there are also times when a mother doesn’t have a clue. With my Down syndrome son it often...
by Jane Thurston | Apr 17, 2014 | Jane Thurston: Down Syndrome Days
“I’m so proud of you. You’ve kept him home longer than most.” “What?” I thought, after my mother said that to me when my Down syndrome son was 8 years old . . . “Where else would he be?” I don’t know the world my mother lived in when she was raising children –...
by Jane Thurston | Mar 20, 2014 | Jane Thurston: Down Syndrome Days
After I heard from both the doctor and a geneticist that my baby would be born with Down syndrome I paged my husband to call home. He was away on business and would know that the page meant the results had come in. Calling from a pay phone at Union Square in San...
by Jane Thurston | Feb 20, 2014 | Jane Thurston: Down Syndrome Days
We found out about our baby’s diagnosis in July before he was born in December. I wish I knew then what I know now about what to look for on a sonogram. I would have been spared the wondering for two weeks until the results of the amniocentesis came back and I...
by Jane Thurston | Jan 16, 2014 | Jane Thurston: Down Syndrome Days
My niece called one day, breathlessly telling me that her friend had a 15 minute old baby and had just been told that the baby was diagnosed with Down syndrome. She pleaded: “What should I tell her?” I was eating in a loud LA sports bar watching three football...
