Comments on: 14. Start Ginkgo Biloba Now http://einstein-syndrome.com/2009/04/21/14-start-ginkgo-biloba-now/ Down Syndrome with a Positive Attitude Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:35:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Miriam http://einstein-syndrome.com/2009/04/21/14-start-ginkgo-biloba-now/#comment-660 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:03:16 +0000 http://einstein-syndrome.com/?p=427#comment-660 I see a need to clarify my opinion about the “syndrome.” I should have added a word. “In my opinion, most babies born today will grow up to resemble little of the “syndrome” identified by Langdon Down.” Let me clarify more with three comments:

1. DS is changing; the expected outcomes are no longer necessarily expected.

2. There is a wide range of medical complication that babies are born with. Obviously, if a child is born with serious medical complications, then that child and family will walk a different road.

3. There is nothing here that is intended to criticize the parent of a medically complicated child, or to suggest that these children are somehow 2nd class citizens of the DS world. This series is what I wish I could tell a new parent of a typical newborn who has DS. It is what I wish I had known from the beginning after my daughter’s birth. It is my hope that this knowledge, acted on early, will prevent some of those medical complications.

]]> By: Top 15 Things a New Parent Should Know http://einstein-syndrome.com/2009/04/21/14-start-ginkgo-biloba-now/#comment-644 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:39:53 +0000 http://einstein-syndrome.com/?p=427#comment-644 This is a series which was written specifically to a couple who have a baby boy with Down syndrome. These fifteen are the things I would do if I once again had a baby with Down syndrome.

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