Baslee

Boonville, Missouri

Emily was born on August 16, 2000 by C- Section. The next day the doctor came to our room and told us that our baby has sign of down syndrome and needed our permission to test her. I immediately was embarrassed for this doctor who was in the wrong room and telling the wrong people about someone else's poor baby. By the time he left our room I realized he was not in the wrong place. My husband and I were so scared. It took a week to get the results back. Mean while we had to take this child home (who looked perfectly ok to us).

When we went to the doctor for her 1 week check up we were told that she had Mosaic Down Syndrome. 10% of her cells had the DS. We were assured this was a very good number. We just knew that they would tell us she was fine, I kept praying that God would show me the lesson in all this and it would be over soon. Well we took her for all the normal tests for DS heart, hearing, genetics, etc. All was well. Emily rolled over, crawled and walked all with in "normal" ranges. She has delayed in speech and potty training. Still working on both but almost done with the potty. I am sure she will be in speech therapy for several more years. But she is doing very well.  She went to 2 years of Early Childhood Preschool. She just finished her Kindergarten year at a private Christian school. She kept up with the others in her class for the most part. She just had her graduation this week. We are so proud!!

Emily is very loving to those she knows well. She has really came out socially in the last 6 months. She loves her music, movies and "boy" toys. We could not love her more. She is the Biggest blessing we could have ever asked for and never knew we wanted. Aside from a few impactions Emily has had no serious medical complications. We just can't wait to see what she will overcome next!