Thanks and you're welcome! I like reading the follow-up stories too.
He was diagnosed with Down syndrome about an hour after his birth.. It was the perfect natural labour I had been longing for, and it was the ideal setting to bond me with my baby even though he was whisked away 2 hours after birth to NICU for pulmonary hypertension, and I didn't officially get him home until he was 6 weeks old. He's now 14 weeks, 7kg, happily breastfed on demand, attending early intervention, slamming his milestones, and being the happy chatty beautiful little man he was born to be. I credit my birth plan with helping me get to the healthy emotional, accepting, loving place I'm at today. (Which is the same place I was at after I had grieved for the loss of the baby I didn't recieve.) That doesn't take a thing away from my perfect son- but he is definitely not what I expected and I needed that time to mourn what I thought my life would be. I have a feeling if I wimped out and had gone down the path of fear, rejection and requested medical interventions.. Life would be a scarier, different place right now and so would my relationship with my son. so there concludes my dramatic little chapter!