That pregnancy took a dramatic turn, however, when the couple was told that their baby had a 100 percent chance of being born with Down syndrome. Kirstin Czernek and Aria. TikTok/kirstinczernek ...

Michele Dynia, 40, yearned to have a child but worried about the risk of having a baby with Down syndrome. Women who are 35 or older are more likely to have a pregnancy affected by the condition ...

They learned that their newborn had Down syndrome, a genetic disorder resulting from an extra copy of the twenty-first chromosome-Trisomy 21. This condition affects the child's development.

When a young couple's newborn was diagnosed with down syndrome, they were filled with anxiety, UPMC Children's Hospital's Down Syndrome Center helped ease those worries. Dec 16, 2019 ...

The 2018 Gerber baby is Lucas Warren, a 1-year-old from Dalton, Georgia who is the first child with Down syndrome to be named a Gerber baby since the contest's start in 2010. "He's very outgoing ...

The median life expectancy for a baby born in the U.S. with Down syndrome jumped from about four years in 1950 to 58 years in the 2010s, according to a recent report from Skotko and other researchers.

Marsha Weigum was sitting in the office of her doctor in Glenwood Springs when she was told that there was a 99% chance her son would be born with Down syndrome. She’d received a call from her doctor ...

A dad in Florida describes the shock, and then the gratitude, he and his wife felt upon welcoming a child with Down syndrome into their family. Fox News Digital spoke with dad Aric Berquist.

They heard about a family in a local hospital who’d just had a baby with Down syndrome. They visited the family, bringing a basket of gifts and resources for supporting children with Down syndrome.

Abby said about 10 weeks into her pregnancy, prenatal testing showed there was a 50% chance her baby would be born with Down syndrome. “At first it was fear, the unknown, not knowing what to ...

When Jake and Ashlyn Burger learned that their daughter was going to be born with Down syndrome, there was no hesitation about embracing her wholeheartedly. To them, she was just their Penelope.