4. Chantelle

It was a Friday afternoon, I received the call from the genetic counsellor, I was about to do school pickup. She just informed me that my blood test had come back and had shown abnormalities.

Chantelle is a nurse and also runs her husband’s business. They have five children. Yes. Five. When pregnant with her youngest son she received a high chance screening result for Trisomy 21 or Down syndrome.

Chantelle talks us through how she and her husband, who initially had different ideas about continuing the pregnancy, navigated the decision-making that followed.

Links:

T21 Mums - Chantelle was able to connect with other parents of children with Down syndrome in this Facebook group soon after Xavier’s birth

321 Pregnancy Care - This group wasn’t around when Chantelle was pregnant but she wishes it was.