by Amy Collier | Mar 4, 2015 | Practical Information, Q&A, Stories, Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
The amnio is between 99.4% and 100% accurate. Have a question for Ending a Wanted Pregnancy? Email us. Q: We just received our amnio results and were given the unexpected news that our baby girl is positive with Trisomy 21. I have heard so many stories that others...
by JD | Feb 24, 2015 | D&E, Stories, Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
I sat in the waiting room with happy expectant mothers, and mothers with newborns, coming and going. By Eileen Like most parents, I never thought I would need to make this decision. While it has been explained to you that there is the possibility something could be...
by JD | Feb 24, 2015 | D&E, Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
I was mad. I was mad at the doctor at the clinic for damaging my uterus. I was mad at the protesters for making the doctor feel like he couldn’t admit defeat. By Cynthia E. ER, Emergency Surgery & Anger Editor’s note: This part three of a four-part series. It is a...
by JD | Feb 24, 2015 | D&E, Stories, Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
We were supposed to be on vacation. Good grief! By Cynthia E. Pregnancy, Diagnosis & DecisionEditor’s note: This part one of a four-part series. It is a brave and unflinchingly honest story involving a rare medical emergency during a clinic D&E, and we...
by Amy Collier | Feb 21, 2015 | Stories, Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
All of this happened in my 13th week of pregnancy, at the 13th hour, on the 13th day. By G. P. I don’t know how I am going to be able to write this story. I don’t know how to put into words the enormous shock, heartbreak and horror I feel at the loss my...
by JD | Jan 1, 2014 | Congenital Heart Defects, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Induction/L&D, Stories, Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome)
The surgeon’s words had completely drained me of my last, desperate hope. By Grace O. A mother, who found out her unborn baby had Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), decided to carry him to full term. But she did not have him undergo the series of surgeries that...
