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Meet Liam.

His momma is one of the strongest women I know. She is also one of my best friends and a regular client! I’ve been blessed by just knowing these little boys.

There’s something special about Mr. Liam,  he has an extra chromosome. Here’s his story.

Written by Liam’s Momma, Stormie:

When I was pregnant we were told there was a very small chance that our baby could have DS, so we were nervous as heck, but I kept praying and was confident that God would take care of everything.  So, we were sent to OKC for testing, and after the ultra sound the Dr. said that he honestly didn’t think he had it, but that if we wanted to know for sure we would need to do the amniocentesis.  There is a 1 in 200 chance of miscarriage, and we both knew we wouldn’t take the chance because either way we wanted our baby.  And hey, he said he didn’t think he had it, and like I said I figured God would take care of it, and besides this kind of stuff happens to other people anyways right?!

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So we had a healthy pregnancy, the last couple months the Dr. said the baby was measuring a little small so they monitored his heart a little more and everything really looked great.  We finally went into labor Super Bowl weekend of 2010. I had contractions all weekend and finally Sunday the Dr. said “Ok, we are having this baby today”.  Labor went great once I had the epidural and some other awesome drug they put in my IV lol.  And we had him just a few minutes before kick off, the Dr was happy lol cause he wasnt going to have to miss any of the game.

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Liam was beautiful!!! He had Kens eyes and my toes…

The nurse was cleaning him up, and it seemed she was taking longer than she should. I remember saying  ”Is

everything ok?”. My Mom said “Oh he’s fine” and the nurse said he was having a little bit of trouble transitioning but it

was ok.  Just hold him against your skin and he will.  And he did.

They took him so they could check him all out and I went to my room and devoured the burger they gave me, I was starving!!  And Ken headed out to the truck cause Id forgotten my hair brush.  The pediatrician that was on call that night came in and I made a joke asking if they’d taken care of the circumcision yet cause I wanted

no part of knowing when it was done lol.  He didnt smile. He said I dont know if you know or not but your baby has all the characteristics of having Down Syndrome, and that he was pretty sure he did.

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I didnt knowwhat to say, so i started crying and said “Well, he’s the baby God wanted me to have”.  I couldn’t think and Ken wasnt there to help me decipher what was happening.  My friend Sherry said I’ll call him, and she went to the hall and told him.  The Dr. then told me his eyes were almond shaped and that was DS feature, what?!! he has Ken’s eyes, surely you’ve lost it! I wanted Ken to hurry up so he could see, those aren’t DS eyes, those are Kens eyes.  And he told me he has a gap between his toes. I was in shock. I thought he has my crazy toes!!  So Ken gets there and we are both in a panic.  The Dr. said he may have alot of health problems, like a heart defect and twisted intestines and hearing loss and would most likely have to wear glasses, and blah blah blah!  And it will take 10 days for the tests to come back to know for sure if he has it.

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It was the longest 10 days of our lives by the time we got the call.  Our sweet pediatriction called me herself and said “Stormie I got the results back today and Liam is positive for Trisomy 21″, she said “I wanted to talk to you myself”.  She mentioned that she would start getting our referrals for the specialists ready.  I thanked her and hung up and cried like Ive never cried before. I felt guilty. I mean, who crys over their child being the way he is. I felt like i was betraying him for being so heartbroken.  Ken was at work and this was not news i could drop on him.  My friend Jessica M. happened to show up just moments after I hung up.  I answered the door bawling and I told her.  And her being her, barged in the house and said “Well its ok. Don’t cry, hes perfect!”.  And then I started calling my family.

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We cried alot for the next few months. I tried to convince myself it was ok and that I could do this.  Time went by and now we are so happy because of  all the prayers and all the faith I had that God would make everything alright. Liam looks at me with those little almond eyes and a cute little smile everyday.  God  did make it alright and He gave us exactly what we needed.  And for that Im thankful for extra chromones!!!