Stefancik

Boynton Beach, Florida

Hi, my name is Cindy and I just gave birth to my first baby.  His name is Stephen. Well let me start before he was born, the doctor heard a heart murmur and saw something in the ultra-sound.

SO I went to a different doctor to check to see if everything was ok and he told me it could mean that my baby has down syndrome. I freaked out and cried uncontrollably before getting mad and telling myself that there's no way anyone could tell that by an ultrasound.  A couple months later I had my baby. He was 2-1/2 weeks early.  They told us that he was fine and that he had high scores on the tests they run at birth. The bad news came the next day when they told us he had slight signs of Down Syndrome, and the next day they told us that he had a heart murmur and that he failed his hearing screen.  I got the test results back days later saying he had mosaic translocation down syndrome. I'm not even sure what that means. 

This is all just very overwhelming for us.  I still have to take Stephen for another hearing test and to check his heart again.  He doesn't look or act like there's anything wrong with him. I guess that's what makes it so hard to believe.  I'm just trying to get as much info on MDS that I can.  The more I know, the more I can help Stephen and help myself in dealing with all of this.