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Living in the Light: Hospital Stay/Learning to Eat (Our Story--Part IV)

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Living in the Light. Thursday, May 01, 2008. Hospital Stay/Learning to Eat (Our Story- Part IV). 8220;I will never forget Bridget’s courage and strength when given a chance.”. Occupational Therapist who worked with Bridget at Children’s. We spent nearly a month at Children’s Hospital with Bridget, and those first few weeks were both exhilarating and exhausting. I am capable and I deserve a chance. Please don’t give up on me. The plan for her recovery was measured and prescribed according to stringent sta...

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Living in the Light: Five

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Living in the Light. Saturday, July 23, 2011. It's been five years today since this little girl arrived in our lives:. Each year it becomes more clear that Bridget's arrival (more to the point: Bridget's Down syndrome diagnosis) brought fear and anxiety that was unwarranted. Each year, it becomes more and more evident that we wasted time and energy feeling uncertain when we should have been celebrating. This little girl is so. Bridget, you are everything I could ever have imagined, and more. Wow, I remem...

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Living in the Light: Owning it

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Living in the Light. Thursday, July 16, 2009. Life interrupted. That's how it feels when Down syndrome is diagnosed. I have yet to find a parent who, as Nick. Expressed in the previous post, hasn't felt like the world fell away at the moment the diagnosis hit. I have yet to find a parent who hasn't felt grief, sadness, anger or fear in that moment- and in the aftershocks that follow, sometimes for years. It is so normal to have these thoughts and feelings. For the rest of our lives. Having a serious heal...

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Living in the Light: A New Journey Begins

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Living in the Light. Tuesday, May 03, 2011. A New Journey Begins. Spring is a time of renewal, growth and new life—the perfect time to begin anew. And it just so happens that. One of my favorite families. Is growing- both literally and figuratively- through adoption. My sweet blogging friend Amy and her husband John are beginning their journey to Davis, a beautiful little boy with Down syndrome in an orphanage in Eastern Europe. Isn’t he the sweetest thing? And show this awesome family some love! Have me...

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Living in the Light: Shining a Light on Prenatal Screening: Implications of the New Tests

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Living in the Light. Monday, March 19, 2012. Shining a Light on Prenatal Screening: Implications of the New Tests. This is a piece I wrote for a series o. F posts on the new prenatal test to detect Down syndrome early in pregnancy. Please take some time to check out the entire series. And please join the conversation. It's too important for any of us to sit this one out. People with Down syndrome—and their families—are overwhelmingly happy with their lives, as. That all pregnant women be offered (at no c...

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Living in the Light: A Look Back: One Year Ago (Post 6)

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Living in the Light. Monday, April 18, 2011. A Look Back: One Year Ago (Post 6). On Friday afternoon, while having our hurried, brief and last official visit with the orphanage director, we were told that we could take Alina out of the orphanage any time between then and Sunday since they finally had. All of the documents necessary to close Alina's file. The director handed us the small slip of paper shown below. It was up to us to decide the date and time of her "Gotcha Day". My description of Gotcha Da...

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Living in the Light: Living in the Light, Explained

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Living in the Light. Tuesday, November 02, 2010. Living in the Light, Explained. When we merged Bridget's Light and Loving Alin. There was little question whether our new blog title would include the word. We couldn't have predicted how Bridget's arrival would change us, would enrich us. Or how Bridget's light would lead us to Alina- and how Alina herself would further enrich us. But it did, and they did. Though none of us is "perfect", we are all perfectly made. In our lives.in spades. These two little ...

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Living in the Light: Introduction & Welcome

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Living in the Light. Friday, April 25, 2008. Welcome to Bridget's Light. If you've found us, you most likely know or love someone with Down syndrome. You might want to know more about life with Ds if you are pregnant and have a prenatal diagnosis (or are just suspecting). You may even be researching the diagnosis for a class. Whatever has brought you here- we're glad you stopped by. Since I'll be doing most of the writing, it might be helpful to know a little bit about my perspective:. While recent years...

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Living in the Light: Bridget's Light

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Living in the Light. Thursday, September 24, 2009. I've thought a lot recently about how best to explain and describe the impact Bridget has had on our lives. And then I realized I'd already written it. This is the essay I wrote, exactly as it appears in. This says it all. The surgery to remove the tumor took my hearing on one side, but there were no other complications. I not only recovered quickly, but became pregnant with our fifth child just over a year later. We were thrilled and easily slip...The l...