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Post by Haleysmom on May 26, 2005 5:55:07 GMT -5
Actually I posted about this sort of last September. My daughter Haley just turned 9. I was 32 when I had her and she is T21. Last September my brother and his wife had a baby boy Alex also T21. She was 42 when she had him. Alex is their 2nd child, he has a big sister Emily. But you are right, I had never heard of it SOOOO close.
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Post by chrfath on May 26, 2005 6:19:19 GMT -5
No one in my family or DH's side.
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Post by Connie on May 26, 2005 9:00:00 GMT -5
I have 2nd cousin with DS who is 19. We we are going to his open house next week to celebrate his graduating from HS.
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Post by Kristen on May 26, 2005 10:07:20 GMT -5
Carter is a one and only! We all do have "signs" of it, though, which I find endlessly humorous.
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Post by TriciaF on May 26, 2005 11:13:33 GMT -5
My father had a first cousin with Ds who lived to be around 60. But....although that is a close connection.....my dad's parents EACH had 12 brothers and sisters.....so my father literally had hundreds of cousins. And this child was the very last of a large family...so the mom was probably older. I was 39 when Patrick was born.
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Post by marisa on May 26, 2005 11:13:34 GMT -5
I said earlier that no one in my family except Laura has DS but then I started really thinking about it. Still can't come up with any DS, although my 2nd cousin's daughter has MR.
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Post by WANDA3CEE on May 26, 2005 11:13:46 GMT -5
My Mia is the only one in both my side and DH side of the familys
Wanda
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Post by meghans_mom on May 26, 2005 11:53:01 GMT -5
meant to say - noone in DHs family either that we know of! laurie
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Post by donnita on May 26, 2005 14:00:07 GMT -5
no others is my family or Guy's.
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Post by Deannalee on May 26, 2005 18:37:42 GMT -5
nope....none here that we no of on either side. just my twins.
Deanna
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Post by Cbean on May 26, 2005 19:11:36 GMT -5
Interesting. Em's the first in both our families. Just a sticky egg I guess. I have a friend whose son's DS was translocation, yet he's the first child in her family born with DS.
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Post by Chris on May 26, 2005 19:29:38 GMT -5
In 1993, my niece (my sister's daughter) had a full term stillborn baby with Ds when she was 18. When I was pregnant with Sarah (and knew she had Ds), I was terrified that she would be stillborn, too.
My cousin's step-daughter has a son with Ds. Her son is a little older than Sarah. They live in Texas and we haven't met him yet. Hopefully, we will this summer.
Chris
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Post by Jessie on May 27, 2005 11:59:03 GMT -5
Don't know. Definitely not on my side of the family. Wait! Never mind, I almost forgot there that I'm not Jason's biological mom - hmmm, too funny, I've never done that before! Anyway, there is not any history of Ds on his biological mother's side of the family. It's unknown/undecided about someone on Brian's side of the family. It was one of those great-uncles had a kid that died at a very young age and no one really remembers if the child had Ds or not. Some family members say yes while other say no.
Jessie
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Post by Pat on May 30, 2005 15:03:05 GMT -5
I know I posted at the beginning of this, but I went to IL to see DH family & met a 2nd cousin also that had a child w/ DS. So that is 2 on his side.
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Post by laurasnowbird on May 30, 2005 15:08:56 GMT -5
None in either side of our family, and my husband's mom had him when she was 43. (ooooh, deja vu!) I will be 42 when this munchkin is born, although only weeks away from 43.
I have a friend who has a 2 1/2 year old with DS, and she is pregnant again with another with DS. My understanding is that it is translocation, and the parents didn't realize it after the birth of their first child with DS. They also have an older daughter who is typical, so I don't know how the whole translocation thing works.
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