babyreview 2

When we first received Baker's Down syndrome diagnosis , I hadn't knowingly met a single person who had experienced the same thing. I hadn't met a person with Down syndrome or knew anyone who had someone with Down syndrome in their family. I don't remember seeing kids with Ds in school or in stores or on TV. Maybe I had blinders on or it just wasn't on my radar. We had friends and family supporting us but as far as I was concerned, we were alone in experiencing this first hand. And as you can imagine, that's a pretty f'ing scary place to be. It felt like our world was caving in but after taking a day or two to process the initial news, I needed to do something. I needed to learn what this meant for Baker and our family. I needed to see what life would be like once Baker was born. Social media is so strange but it can also be really wonderful at times, people can connect easily and hashtags are searchable so that's where I turned. I had been added to a lo...