Following a baby’s Down syndrome diagnosis, it is clear what parents need and what they don’t. Parents do need accurate information and support. Parents do not need outdated misconceptions, pity, scare tactics, or completely incorrect information. All too often, the latter is all that new parents receive. In connection with the mission of Saving Down syndrome, we as an organization now
By Renate Lindeman, the spokesperson for Dutch parent group Downpride‘ Academics call for non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) carried out at about 10 weeks to be made more widely available’, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. This test can, with reasonable accuracy, detect Down syndrome in early pregnancy from a single drop of blood taken from the mother. Experts warn however, that early
We read the title, and description, and saw IDSC posting it, and then: https://youtu.be/0v8twxPsszY – Words cannot tell, as the video shows. “Inside all the people there is a unique world. Who is a down? I don’t know, but i can tell who is Giovanni.”