[tri-med] Re: Not a medical dictionary....

Thanks Michelle.

Katy. sont8m. 

--- jwaite <jwaite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Katy Roberts" <basil1_2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Mind you I am due to have baby
> > number 2 the end of November and am worried how I
> am
> > still going to fight my sons battles and care for
> > another child.
> 
> Congrats Katy and take a deep
> breath.................
> 
> We experienced the trier first, typical second too.
> 
> Actually, I had a miscarriage between the 2 kids.
> And started wondering 'why can't I do this pregnancy
> thing right'. Never 
> smoked, never did drugs, rarely drank....just didn't
> make sense.
> 
> Alex was my total focus his first 3
> years.....working with him, learning how 
> he worked and what made him tick, exploring (without
> the Internet) ways to 
> help him along.....nearly drove myself into the
> loony bin.
> 
> While pregnant with Molly I really didn't fret much
> until the last 
> month....and then the 'what if something is wrong
> with this baby too' crept 
> in now and then........but it wasn't the total focus
> of my day.
> 
> I can say that having Molly was one of the best
> things for Alex we could 
> have done (not that I recommend having a child for
> that reason!).
> 
> She motivated him in ways nothing and nobody had
> done before (even with the 
> strides he made when I went back to work 2 days per
> week and he went to an 
> in-home daycare--the advancements he made in a
> different environment with 
> peer modeling were wonderful).
> 
> Alex wanted to keep up with 'the baby'.......things
> we'd not been able to 
> get him to do Molly did......just by developing
> normally.
> 
> It is hard not to worry about all the what ifs, the
> how will I and the what 
> will happen thoughts.
> So hang in there and keep on truckin'.  :0)
> 
> Michelle mom to Alex (20, partial trisomy 14 mosaic)
> and Molly (16)
> Michigan USA 
> 
> 
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> 
> 



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