Living with Down Syndrome

This section has personal blogs from a range of people - fathers, mothers and siblings - which reflect happenings in their everyday lives and events which impact on the lives of their loved one with Down syndrome. We encourage you to share your thoughts and comments.

 
 

Feeding Laura

21 Apr 09
by dsc_staff    13 comments
Feeding Laura

Our daughter Laura was tubefed from birth. Because of her AVSD heart condition she never had the energy to suck a full bottle. She weighed in at just over 2kilos when she was born and weight gain for heart surgery between 4 and 6 months was paramount. In the hospital neo-natal unit, the goal was to have her drinking her ...

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