Advocate

Advocate

When my Down syndrome son was born, agency people and programs came rushing at me.  One phrase kept being repeated: “You have to be his advocate”.  “Yea, right!” I thought.  “How can I go to battle for him when I don’t even understand what all these options are that...
Lost!

Lost!

I Can’t Find My Baby!   You know that feeling when you can’t find your young child?  Did you flinch and begin to feel that sinking feeling as you read this title?  Everyone knows that first jolt of alarm when realizing that they’re unable to spot their little...
He’s Happy To Be Here

He’s Happy To Be Here

If we’d known how much we were going to enjoy him, those first few “down syndrome days” would have been very different. It isn’t that I thought we might not enjoy him, but in those first few days there was so much unknown that it did feel like we were navigating a bit...
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