{"id":180101,"date":"2018-03-08T11:04:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=180101"},"modified":"2018-03-07T18:27:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T23:27:30","slug":"mom-reacts-preborn-down-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mom-reacts-preborn-down-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom reacts to news preborn son has Down syndrome: ‘I’m glad he is mine’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Save The Storks<\/a>) My husband and I were sitting in the doctor\u2019s office ready to discuss my blood work when it happened. I found out I had O Negative blood a couple days before, and we researched and prepared for what that meant for the pregnancy, and our sweet little guy. But that\u2019s not what the doctor brought up.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour blood work came back and you tested positive for Down syndrome.\u201d<\/em>
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\nI processed what the doctor said and then mentally shut down. I needed more time to digest this. The doctor finally left the room, and I look up at my husband. \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u201d<\/em> \u2013 that\u2019s all I can think to say and it\u2019s really what I feel. I feel like I did this to my sweet baby, and am putting my husband through a trial that I\u2019m sure is intended for me only.<\/p>\n

Because well, I\u2019ve done a lot of wrong things, that should result in trial. Hard things happen to people that deserve them right? Karma and all that cosmic universe stuff. But my sweet husband doesn\u2019t deserve this. He is all that is right and good in the world. So I\u2019m sorry. Over and over again that\u2019s all I say\u2026. \u201cSorry.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The doctor asks if we want to see the baby. Surprisingly this is hard hear because he never asked me if I wanted an ultrasound before, but now that my baby was going to have Down syndrome, the doctor began giving us lots of different choices he hadn\u2019t before.<\/p>\n