I “Barbara” met such a nice couple when I was on my way back home to North Carolina (we have been stationed here for almost 1 year and my husband is in Iraq at the present time) and they were on their way back to Florida.

My name is Carla Duffy. I am 29 years old. We live in the mountains of NC. We learned of Maggie's possible diagnosis of Down Syndrome the same day we learned that she was a baby girl. A 2nd level 2 ultrasound at 32 weeks revealed an Atri-ventricular septal defect (AVSD). (I was considered a high risk pregnancy b/c of medication I was taking at the time of conception, so they were looking for possible birth defects, but we were definitely not expecting to find any.) Perhaps, hearing of the possible DS diagnosis along with the AVSD diagnosis, made that possibility pale in comparison.