As part of our campaign for World Down Syndrome Day 2021 we have released an e-book, full of stories from real families. The book includes many different family members and people with Down syndrome sharing how they feel about their family. This week we wanted to share with you a piece written by Hannah, sister Read more about Love is not a burden[…]

Happy World Down Syndrome Day! Today some of our WCAT families let us know what their family member with Down syndrome means to them. I didn’t want a baby with Down syndrome, until I had Connie and realised she was everything we never realised we needed in our lives. Julie Seabourne Not only did Chloe Read more about WDSD 2021: We Are Family[…]

This year our WDSD celebration looks at sibling relationships. ‘How will this affect my other children?’ is a question commonly asked by parents who have received a new diagnosis of Down syndrome for their child. Hoping to help answer that question we asked some of our Wouldn’t Change A Thing families what having a sibling Read more about Dear Future Sibling[…]

Thanks to Lorna Morris for this week’s blog about her daughter Nyla. Our pregnancy was greatly anticipated and we were overjoyed to hear we were expecting. Following our 12 week scan we got the gut wrenching phone call from a screening midwife saying our “risk” of one of 3 chromosome abnormalities (t13, t18 or t21) Read more about Nyla has made our family complete[…]