Big People Don't Pee in the Park

What do you do when you have life planned out and a tiny chromosome rewrites your story?

"We think your baby has Down syndrome" may not be the words a mother wants to hear hours after giving birth-at least I didn't. I went from that beautiful new-mommy feeling to feeling cheated of the experience the other moms who'd delivered that day were having. What did this mean for my baby? For me? For our family? How would my future play out?

At a time meant to be joyous, I found myself undergoing a w...