[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Giving Nutritional Supplements to Children with Down Syndrome Giving nutritional supplements to children with Down syndrome has been a big topic for as long as I’ve been a member of the Down syndrome parent community. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it all, it seems to fall into a few groups: nutrivene, big-time concentrated supplements…
(Down syndrome) Potty Training Diaries I suppose you’ve all been there – that place when you look around and scrunch your nose and SWEAR you can smell pee – but can’t place the source and you realize you are at a place in which you feel like your every waking hour revolves peeing and pooping….
There is a story that is going seriously viral right now, about an Australian couple that had a surrogate mother in Thailand grow them twins. When one of the twins was born with Down syndrome and health complications, the couple apparently abandoned him and went on back to the Land Down Under with their one…
Feel-good feels good. A light, alive, inside. We want it, we need it. Parents of kids with “special needs” (– disabilities) really, really need the feel-good, especially when/if we are not used to a world of disability that has chosen us. We want to know life is going to be sweet for our kids,…
Feel-good feels good. A light, alive, inside. We want it, we need it. Parents of kids with “special needs” (– disabilities) really, really need the feel-good, especially when/if we are not used to a world of disability that has chosen us. We want to know life is going to be sweet for our kids, that…
I think my story in and of itself is a plump one. Take your pick, but most of the facets are individually pieces that people will write long about – from the early years on the rural sheep farm to the car accident. My parents becoming Baha’i’s, then moving to the Fiji Islands. Growing up…
I think my story in and of itself is a plump one. Take your pick, but most of the facets are individually pieces that people will write long about – from the early years on the rural sheep farm to the car accident. My parents becoming Baha’i’s, then moving to the Fiji Islands. Growing up…
This is one of those posts that I like so much that I'll probably still be whipping it out when all of these kids are 30, married and working. And they'll be all embarrassed, 'grrrrr, could you STOP re-posting that post already?' I'll probably stop then. But not before then. Just cuz I like it….
Today is October 1st, the beginning of Down syndrome Awareness Month and the start of our Month with Moxie, celebrating the gift of an extra chromosome and a life lived with moxie – with courage, verve and vigor. I made a little book of photos and quotes I've posted here on the blog or…
“Noah’s Dad” is a guy named Rick Smith. Rick Smith is evidently studying to be a pastor and is married to a pediatrician. About a year ago, they welcomed their first child into the world, a bonny boy whom they named Noah. With absolutely no previous experience in disability rights/advocacy or even parenting, Rick became…
When I was pregnant with Moxie, I heard that “Down syndrome kids are just angels“, heard an awful lot about this “happy”, eternally “angelic” disposition that are the supposed trademark of those with an extra chromosome, right along with the ubiquitous (and to me, smotheringly condescending) pieces about “special babies for special mothers.” These nuggets…