Cromwell, Connecticut
Nathan was born on October 7, 1994, on the maternity unit that I worked on as a labor nurse. He was a perfectly normal baby, except that he would not breastfeed. He had a dysfunctional suck, so we worked with him for a while. He never quite got the knack of a good latch, so I just pumped milk and managed to get him breast milk for the first 3 - 4 months of his life. He was not diagnosed with Mosaic Down syndrome until he was 4 months old.