Having a Down's child can be a positive life development
HAD the test with a view to terminate,” says Mandy Peart. Mandy and her husband Stephen, 52, discovered their unborn baby had Down’s syndrome after a routine test at 13 weeks.
After an initial assessment, which looked at risk factors such as maternal age, the 45-year-old personnel clerk was told her baby had a one in five chance of having the condition.
Mandy went ahead with a second test – an amniocentesis – which gave her and her husband Stephen, an accountant, the definite diagnosis.
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Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts is founder of Support for Special Needs and has been a regular contributor since its inception in May 2010. A mom to two kids with special needs, she didn't want other parents to feel what is the often isolating world of raising a child (or two!) with disabilities. Her kids had kidney transplants at the age of eight and will need liver transplants in the future as a result of ARPKD/CHF. They both have vision disorders and learning disabilities.