Yes, her ears were set low on her head, another common trait of a baby with Down syndrome, but weren't they the same ears that all the women in my family had? We saw ourselves in her, in the way ...

Saved by gravity, I pivoted back into his room to pick it up with echoes of my grandmother’s yelling buzzing in my ears. Twenty years earlier ... residency the first time I cared for a baby diagnosed ...

lungs and eyes and ears don’t always give you pause. I’m sad you were so very wrong to say a baby with Down syndrome would decrease our quality of life. And I’m heartbroken you might have ...

Babies and young children with Down syndrome can often be late to reach ... gastroesophageal reflux disease, recurrent ear infections that may lead to hearing loss, obstructive sleep apnea ...

Down's syndrome is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome in the cells of a developing baby. It is not hereditary. It is the most common cause of severe mental disability and is often ...