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Five months pregnant with her first baby, Desiree Rossette was heading out the door to a wedding when she happened to notice she had a message on the answering machine. The message was from the hospital, and it would change her life, though she didn’t think much of it at the time. The test results the doctor wanted to discuss would lead him to call for an abortion against her wishes.\u00a0Rossette’s blood test had come back revealing that her baby had a one in 30 chance of having Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

Then, during an ultrasound, the doctor noticed white spots on the baby’s heart along with other characteristics that can sometimes point to Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

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Oh this sweet boy of mine, there\u2019s so much to say?? We found out we were expecting in June of 2006. In Sept. of 2006 I received a message on the answering machine that a blood test I took came out positive. They didn\u2019t say for what but that we had to go in to the hospital. We spoke to a genetic counselor and she told us our child tested positive for Down syndrome. Because of that, we had a 1 in 30 chance of him being born with Down syndrome, and that sometimes there could be false positives. I was a little shocked but we kept moving forward. Our doctor at the time seemed like a really nice man. We had a visit with him and he found some white spots in Dante during our ultrasound which could lead to heart defects. He also told us that if I kept Dante past 20 weeks we could both be at risk of passing away due to complications. Of course we were devastated and prayed. The next day I received a phone call from the abortion clinic to schedule an abortion. Again, I was devastated and told them I was not having an abortion. It turns out the doctor had called and made them schedule one for me. I spoke to the doctor and it turns out his wife was pregnant with a baby with Down syndrome and they aborted their baby. He said it would be too much of a burden to have a child with Down syndrome. Again, I was crying and devastated and couldn\u2019t believe what I was hearing. At that point we made the decision to get a second opinion from a different doctor. With our second doctor, everything seemed so much better. Dante\u2019s check ups were great, and his heart was perfect. At birth, I didn\u2019t get to hold him right away because his temperature was low. He stayed under a heat lamp for about 30 minutes. After that it was pure joy. Dante has a love like no other. He was such a great baby and his schedule was so easy to follow. Dante had a few surgeries once he hit a year old. I can share those later. I just wanted to share with you all what we went through with him. It was so hard and shocking. He was our first baby and we went through so much with him. I cried a lot, not because he has Down syndrome but because of the bumpy road he was going to take. ?? #downsyndrome<\/a><\/p>\n

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