After being diagnosed during my pregnancy that Brayden had Trisomy 21, aka Down Syndrome...I was told by many to buy the book " Gifts", well at my special baby shower a friend fo mine gave me the book as a gift....what a wonderful book and great way to be so excited about the delivery of a baby that has down syndrome. It is a book that is compiled of stories written by birth mothers about their stories of their journeys of their Down Syndrome babies. Some of them had found out prenatally as we did...but most found out at birth. There was a startling number that I found out after being diagnosed prenatally...of the ones that find out prenatally...only 9% carry through to delivery. So, you can imagine the stories touching our lives and our extended families lives in so many ways...WELL... in a chat board I belong to for Down Syndrome moms I was reading an invite for stories written from loved ones ie..grandparents, neighbors, friends, professionals, etc.. The editor/author of Gifts was coming out with a Gifts vol.II.. .at this time back in August my in-laws were going on vacation for a couple of weeks and I thought I would ask them if they might be interested in writing a story about their journey with us while they were on vacation.
Along with my mom...they have been there for us from the minute we found out our diagnosis. They accepted the invite and wrote a beautiful story! SOOOO...we just got the email from the editor that she wants Brayden's story in the next book that is going to be sold EVERYWHERE! So exciting! I can't wait until I see the book! Unfortunately the book won't be out until 2010 and the author is wanting to focus on just Grandpa's side of the story (since they don't have too many grandpa stories), but I have the original from both of them!!!...So the author/editor is going to be working with my father-in-law in the next several months, along with taking some photos of Brayden and Papa for the book...yeah! Well, that's all for now...just wanted to share the exciting news... THANK YOU GRAMMY AND PAPA! We love you!
6 comments:
That is awesome! I will have to get a copy of the book!
That is great Dolly!! I can't wait to read it! What a special thing to have Brayden chosen out of i'm sure many! He is too cute!! That is very exciting! Love you guys and keep the pics comin', your blog looks great!
That is so cool Dolly. What a treasure that will be to Brayden some day. Love you guys and am so glad you are blogging:)!
WOW!!! You guys are amazing. It's so fun to read your blog. I can't wait for the book. I will have to have them sign it.
Thanks to all of you!...yes...we are sooo excited for this book. If you ever get a chance to get your hands on the first volume...it is awesome! If you ever know anyone with down syndrome or going to be delivering a baby with down syndrome...be sure to pass the name of this book along...it helped me realize that everything was going to be ok and I so looked forward to meeting Brayden after I read it!
Wow that is so great! I will be reading it for sure!
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