Helpful Sites



This is David's CaringBridge site, which I have been using since he was about 2 months old, and still in the NICU, to keep family and friends updated about his medical progress.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/davidmoses

The website for the National Down Syndrome Society. This is the most comprehensive site I have found - you can learn a lot about Down syndrome, national organizations, and the "My Great Story" section is, well, great. Highly recommended!

http://www.ndss.org/

A really good blog - I just started following it and I think if I met the author, I would really like her. Plus the photography is excellent:

http://www.kellehampton.com/

This guy is a geneticist who has written extensively about Down syndrome:

http://brianskotko.com/

Mommy blog about her two children, one of whom has Down syndrome and one who does not:

http://www.deannajsmith.com/

Mommy blog: http://babynumber10.blogspot.com/

An "article" about the new test, that seems to be more of a commercial. Pay attention to the words of the testing-company person at the end: "it's about execution, execution, execution: http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2012/02/29/verinatas-big-day-arrives-with-prenatal-down-syndrome-test-debut/?single_page=true

Blog by a mom, but based on what I've read so far I might hesitate to label it a "mommy blog" :http://lisamorguess.wordpress.com/
* Includes a Down syndrome reading list. Feel free to read it, but if she and I disagree on a book, I get to win 'cause you know me. Right? *

The subtitle of this blog is, "Bringing Medicine and Faith Together," the author is characterized as a "Christian OB/GYN" http://thepregnancycompanion.com/2012/02/22/maternit21-a-new-option-for-down-syndrome-testing-in-pregnancy/

I am not recommending this, exactly, because I haven't read too far into it, but feel free to check it out: http://www.unitedmedianow.com/