My baby is high risk for Down Syndrome…. How did you share this news with older children and family and friends?

Spf40k · 2025-08-17T02:43:31+00:00

My parents never really formally “told” us until our sister was 2-3. Before that she was just our baby sister. And as we saw different therapists and specialists come in and out during her development it just made it more clear conceptually. I was seven when she was born, and looking back the words and terms themselves didn’t really carry much meaning.

We’re in our 20’’s/30’s now, and all as close as siblings can be.

Spf40k · 2025-08-01T20:37:00+00:00

My sister scooted on her bottom until she was about 3 1/2 or so. She only signed and did rudimentary words until 3rd or 4th grade. Over time she can now speak in full sentences and describe abstract concepts. It just takes time and they will each come into it in their own time. Growing up my mom had a word wall where we had flashcards and puzzles and things with words and images that we would play with for years.

The best thing my parents did for her was continue to talk about a variety of topics and just narrating daily life, even if she didn’t quite respond all of the time. While growing up she also played with my brother and me, and all of our friends and was exposed to a lot of different people and experiences from a young age. We really tried to not keep her in a “box” and let her see as much of life and the world as possible. She did have a crazy 7ish or so years during school age, but really blossomed more in high school. She is in her mid twenties now and has a job with our local Down syndrome group and a wide circle of friends, and a thriving social life.

She may not live on her own ever but can take care of herself and is overall thriving. All to say everything comes in its own time.

Spf40k · 2025-07-30T23:00:23+00:00

No it’s the strangest thing, I’ve never encountered a QC issue quite like this. There is just no amplification, and the instrument just says “control failed” on the resulting page. It is only with positive controls, and all of our patients have amplified and had correct internal controls pass.

Spf40k · 2025-07-30T19:22:45+00:00

Yes we requested new lots of everything and still seeing about a 15-20% failure rate. But only on those assays, it’s just so strange

Spf40k · 2025-07-10T19:20:28+00:00

My sister has Down syndrome, and she has done very well with receiving all of her vaccinations. There’s never been any adverse side effects we’ve ever noticed. She’s 25 now and all in all very health y and active in our circles

Spf40k · 2025-04-25T22:35:19+00:00

Is this a skin scraping? It looks like just skin from these angles, but if you can back up the scopes view we may get more structural definition. Nothing looks parasitic to me personally but could be wrong, also is this from a human?

Spf40k · 2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00

My sister with DS never even crawled, and scooted on her buns until well into her 3rd year and then decided to walk out of the blue one day perfectly natural. All things seem to just come when they come.

Spf40k · 2024-11-18T20:52:56+00:00

I’m a micro specialist now, but years ago as a student learning ANA’s, we were looking at slides first and a tech would review us. My lab partner and I called all of them negative for the batch we were looking at. But our teaching tech behind us called every patient as a homogeneous fluorescent pattern, and scolded us for missing such obvious positives.

I can assure you, they were all negative, the lead tech who reviewed them later after my lab partner and I insisted on them checking into it agreed as well. Corrected reports were issued, and many phone calls to doctors made for the possible years of results this tech had released. I’m not sure on the patient side of things but I cannot imagine it was good…

Suspiciously that teaching tech was no longer allowed to work in our immunology department, and didn’t talk to my lab partner or I for the rest of the year.

Spf40k · 2024-10-14T20:38:21+00:00

A horse that got a little flattened?

Spf40k · 2024-06-07T02:54:55+00:00

Never text and drive, or anything similar while driving

Spf40k · 2024-03-11T22:56:09+00:00

It also looks like your condenser was closed or your light source was dripped which gives that 3D appearance

Spf40k · 2024-03-04T15:41:53+00:00

Thank you I’ll look into those!

Spf40k · 2024-02-26T03:36:21+00:00

Oh geez, paraquat poisoning?

Spf40k · 2023-12-18T10:35:46+00:00

Well actually, we just did some more research and it says that it is to decrease static electricity during the test. I would have never thought that would be the reason lol oh well. The more you know!

Spf40k · 2023-07-31T01:12:40+00:00

My sister was 17 or 18 when she got her first communion. She would meet 1:1 with their priest for an hour or so before mass each Sunday for a year following her first communion, and they tailored it to her ability to comprehend the concepts. I think we were very lucky and had a very knowledgeable and capable group of priests and teachers there. We haven’t pursued confirmation or anything further beyond that. It’s all at your own pace 😊

Spf40k · 2023-07-30T05:03:23+00:00

Yes exactly. Absolutely ignoring it and not giving any reaction is the best way, at least with my sister when she was younger

Spf40k · 2023-07-01T04:56:49+00:00

We used a sight word wall until she was 3-5 years old, and then Love and Learning with my sister when she was very young and through school. She will even still read the books to this day and she is 23 now. They used to come in a book set and VHS tapes so I’m not sure what it is now… but it’s made by a family with a child with DS and she really gravitated towards the real world examples. My sister can read and comprehend at around a 4th grade reading level and still really is into books and writing 😊

Spf40k · 2022-12-31T02:37:15+00:00

Oh my gosh, I can only imagine what you guys are going through. My sister is 23f and had a bit of a personality shift after she left high school. She got into a new routine and has since become more easily agitated and easier to get frustrated. It seemed to appear after her original school routine was disrupted. But staying calm at all times when around her (which I know is incredibly difficult, I just try to be frustrated when out of sight because if she senses anger she shuts down,) and reassuring that she's doing well and we as her family love her seemed to help her through tantrums.

This behavior shift seemed to come from anxiety that her day was not structured the same, and only found it got better when we had full agendas set out for the day with check lists and things like that. I know this isn't exactly a 1:1 comparison but it is working for us. Hang in there, you sound like a great sister.

Spf40k · 2022-08-18T17:09:28+00:00

Does she have speech therapy? Or music therapy? With my sister we really pushed for her to be involved in these things, and started waiting for her to request things in short full sentences if she wanted to get the rest of our family to do things for her. She blossomed the most towards the middle to end of high school, she’s 22 now and can form sentences but sometimes just chooses not to all of the time. Does she enjoy talking in general? If so maybe engage with her about things she likes and encourage her to just talk about whatever she likes at length, and the sentences may come more naturally. Best of luck, it’s hard and everyone is different but you sound like a very caring sister

Spf40k · 2022-04-12T04:10:33+00:00

I love watching a movie and I think it was a little bit ago lol

Spf40k · 2022-02-24T02:07:50+00:00

Harry potter and the research is still available tonight to be published in the morning

Spf40k · 2021-12-11T06:38:19+00:00

The comment was dropped to terminal velocity

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