Jakedross

Ex FF/EMT Can verify

Have a 13 y/o with Downs that is all about the boobies and he is surrounded by ladies, CONSTANTLY! WTH? He has also managed to hack every single block we have put on the computers to keep him off porn websites, so yeah, they arent as slow as people think they are and they work it well.

Nuchal translucency isnt perfect, it showed abnormal thickening on my youngest son and he was born absolutely normal and is, in fact, intellectually gifted while my son with Downs Syndrome had all tests come back normal. It wouldnt have made a difference for us either, but it would have been nice to know as well. Parent of a now 13 year old son with Downs, stopping in to say,"HELLO!"

I just think its important that people know that tests are not the end all, be all for finding out what you are going to get when you set out to have a child. I love all my sprogs, be they the genius honor students working their way through college, my soon to be 18 year old half way through college, my 13 year old with Downs that tells me hes going to be a rock star, my 11 year old that is brilliant and quirky and my youngest that rules us all and wants to be an astro-physicist. They all give me gray hairs and troubles in their own ways, and I would trade none of them for any others. My son with Downs enhanced us all and made us much better people, the tests do people no favors and probably add more stress.