Day: 9 November 2021

Mila’s Story, by her mum, Lisa Mila was my first born. I was 30 years old and had been given a 1:45000 chance in having a child with Down syndrome. Mila was born by C-section at 38 weeks. I fell in love with her straight away, she was a perfect baby girl. I was told […]

Peter’s Story, by his mum, Katie Hey everyone, we are Katie and Simon and we are proud parents to three little people, Jake, Ava and our beautiful baby Peter who has DS. Peter is so loved by his siblings, we call them the three musketeers! We definitely had a piece to our family puzzle missing […]

Mateusz’s Story, by his sister, Hania Meet Mateusz! Matty is my younger brother, and TODAY is his 17th Birthday! He was born with Down syndrome. He got diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of 3 and, as he was growing up, he had some health problems as well. It meant that he got […]

Poppy’s Story, by her mum, Phillippa This is Poppy – my sassy, talkative, lovable 14 year old daughter. She’s a typical teenager – moody at times, argumentative and always on her iPad and phone. Our journey has been relatively easy so far, with no major health issues. (She was born with a small hole in […]

Carson’s story, by his mum, Sam When I found out I was pregnant again, with baby number 7, I was excited and scared, as I’d previously had 5 miscarriages over the last 17 years. All seemed to be going well though. We went for the 12 week scan and baby was growing perfect and nothing […]

Arthur’s Story, by his mum, Donna I decided to look though some photos of Arthur to help me write this and, I’ll be honest, Arthur is smashing living his best life! He takes on each challenge in turn – horse riding, riding his scooter and bike. He is an amazing dancer with moves that any […]

Erin’s story, by her mum, Rachel Erin was a IUI baby as she has 2 Mummies. She was conceived on the second attempt and was carried by her Mummy Hannah. We knew very early on that she had Down Syndrome. Her screening results came back at 1 in 3 chance. Our thoughts and feelings at […]

Tom’s Story, by his twin sister, Jess Both me and Tom are 12 years old, and being his twin is amazing! He always knows how to make me laugh and smile. And brings joy to the house. Sometimes he says things that are very random but it just makes us laugh and smile. Tom loves […]