Our daughter Kaylee was born on December 19, 2005. She is the youngest of our 4 children, younger than the others by more than a decade. We have a 14 year old son and twin daughters who are 12.

My Name is Janell, and my 2 year old daughter, Jayme has MDS. We have a 10 yr old daughter and we thought for many years that she would be an only child. When we decided that we would like to have another child, we tried for about 6 months to get pregnant again. Days before my husband was set to deploy to Iraq, we found out that we were going to have another baby!!!! The only bad thing was that Jason would miss the birth.

I knew from the moment I first nursed my Katie that she was different. At her two week checkup I told her pediatrician of my suspicions....and the next checkup and the next checkup and the...well, you get the idea.

When Amber was first born I noticed that something was just not right. She had low muscle tone and did not seem to develop as quickly as her sister Abby did. The doctor's kept assuring us that nothing was wrong and that she was perfectly healthy.

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.

Hello everyone!  My name is Kimberly Hines and I have a son named Aidan who will be 3 years old in October with MDS. I was sick all through my pregnancy with him and had a sonogram at 6 months that had discovered Aidan’s femur bone was shorter than average.

We received Emilie's diagnosis after 17 long, frustrating months. I have to say that we were more relieved than upset when we received the diagnosis because it answered our "why" questions.

Emily was born September 16, 2003. We were ecstatic. We had the perfect pair (we also have a son who is 3 years older than Emily). Shortly after she was born, I began to have weird dreams. In these dreams a doctor is telling me my beautiful baby girl has Down Syndrome. I pushed these dreams out of my mind after talking to a friend of mine who works with kids with DS.

After my 18th week ultrasound for my fourth child, I received a phone call from my OB on a Monday afternoon. I immediately knew something was wrong. It is funny because earlier in the day I remembered feeling relief that I didn't get a call. Part of me knew something was wrong.