"I literally felt like I'd lost the air in my chest. I couldn't speak." That was the immediate reaction of a Florida dad and entrepreneur when he learned during an urgent phone call from his wife — ...

“Wow! You were so kind to that little boy!” a pediatric resident told me with a saccharine and insincere tone. I was a third-year medical student, and she’d pulled me aside after she’d witnessed me ...

Emma McLean is a 6-year-old girl who loves Taylor Swift, reading books, playing the drums and hanging with her little sister. While Emma has Down syndrome — specifically a rare type called Mosaic Down ...

The heartwarming moment a teenager with Down syndrome was reunited with his older brother after three months apart has melted hearts online. Mom-of-three Kimberly DowDell, 47, captured the precious ...

Nearly 11 years ago, Carissa Carroll gave birth to Jack, her middle child, via emergency cesarean section. While attitudes and outlook have changed, it wasn’t so long ago that a diagnosis of Down ...

Nick Safier and his little brother Gabe share the best ritual. When Nick, 28, leaves home and returns, his brother Gabe, 21, who has Down syndrome, gives him a big hug and a kiss on the nose.

Of having her daughter Aria, Kirstin Czernek says, "I fell instantly in love and it opened my eyes to the Down syndrome community as a whole" Kirstin Czernek always wanted a big family — though she ...

Adults with both Down syndrome and congenital heart defects, also known as congenital heart disease (CHD), are showing remarkable resilience despite facing significant medical challenges, according to ...

Being the mother of Bobby, a boy with Down syndrome, is for many my induction into the Selfless Mother Club. Strangers assume that my life must be one of constant sacrifice as I care for a child with ...

"Mostly I'm sad you’ll never have the privilege of knowing my daughter." — -- Courtney Baker took more than a year to write and mail a letter she had been thinking about since she was pregnant ...