Comments on: More UK Parents chose to have their children with Down’s syndrome http://www.bloggernews.net/118795 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:11:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Placidway http://www.bloggernews.net/118795#comment-858885 Placidway Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:35:26 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118795#comment-858885 It surely is a pain to have a child with any kind of disease when you know that the kid you have given birth to, can die any moment or would be unable to live a normal life as others..but now when the medical science has made so many advanced improvements, abortion isn't the only solution... But for the couples who have had the such experience as Down Syndrome can go through Embryo Screening (PGD) to make sure that the feotus isn't suffering from any kind of problems. Medical Centers like Superior A.R.T. are offering latest advanced technology in this regard...parents who want to have a baby free of disease can take advantage of PGD, an assisted reproductive technology. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) (also known as Embryo Screening) is a form of genetic diagnosis performed prior to implantation. It is a reasonable choice for couples at risk of transmitting hereditary genetic diseases to their children. PGD allows scientists to choose unaffected embryos and transfer them to a woman undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF). PGD is very powerful and can be beneficial to many couples. It can be applies in many different circumstances to serve the needs of individual couples that are at risk of conceiving genetically abnormal children. Superior A.R.T., one of the leading providers of PGD in Southeast Asia, offers comprehensive PDG option to interested couples. Superior A.R.T. also offers PGD to couples who have identifiable genetic disorders, including thalassemia, breast cancer and many more. We believe that it would be less upsetting to discard an abnormal embryo before implantation, rather than go through early pregnancy and make the difficult decision whether to continue with an abnormal pregnancy or abort it. In those couples with a complete analysis of their genetic defects, Superior A.R.T. can test for such abnormalities in their embryos in order to prevent those undesirable genetic abnormalities. A search among family members for a bone marrow donor that can provide HLA matching stem cells may enable you to use PGD to bring a child into the world..... PGD is also used to screen for genetic chromosomal abnormalities due to advanced maternal age. These disorder are more likely to occur in women 35 years if age and older and lead to problems such as Down's syndrome or early miscarriage. The chance of these chromosomal problems increases with maternal age, regardless of family history. PGD requires biopsy (removal) if cells from each embryo for analysis. Just like couples with infertility problems, you will need to have IVF cycle to create a number of embryos. Although many IVF centres offer PGD services, it is best to use a centre that has experience with PGD in order to achieve the best results. This is because embryo biopsy is highly skilled procedure. Recent studies show that biopsy skill has a big impact on embryo survival. It surely is a pain to have a child with any kind of disease when you know that the kid you have given birth to, can die any moment or would be unable to live a normal life as others..but now when the medical science has made so many advanced improvements, abortion isn’t the only solution…
But for the couples who have had the such experience as Down Syndrome can go through Embryo Screening (PGD) to make sure that the feotus isn’t suffering from any kind of problems. Medical Centers like Superior A.R.T. are offering latest advanced technology in this regard…parents who want to have a baby free of disease can take advantage of PGD, an assisted reproductive technology. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) (also known as Embryo Screening) is a form of genetic diagnosis performed prior to implantation. It is a reasonable choice for couples at risk of transmitting hereditary genetic diseases to their children. PGD allows scientists to choose unaffected embryos and transfer them to a woman undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF).
PGD is very powerful and can be beneficial to many couples. It can be applies in many different circumstances to serve the needs of individual couples that are at risk of conceiving genetically abnormal children. Superior A.R.T., one of the leading providers of PGD in Southeast Asia, offers comprehensive PDG option to interested couples.
Superior A.R.T. also offers PGD to couples who have identifiable genetic disorders, including thalassemia, breast cancer and many more. We believe that it would be less upsetting to discard an abnormal embryo before implantation, rather than go through early pregnancy and make the difficult decision whether to continue with an abnormal pregnancy or abort it. In those couples with a complete analysis of their genetic defects, Superior A.R.T. can test for such abnormalities in their embryos in order to prevent those undesirable genetic abnormalities. A search among family members for a bone marrow donor that can provide HLA matching stem cells may enable you to use PGD to bring a child into the world…..
PGD is also used to screen for genetic chromosomal abnormalities due to advanced maternal age. These disorder are more likely to occur in women 35 years if age and older and lead to problems such as Down’s syndrome or early miscarriage. The chance of these chromosomal problems increases with maternal age, regardless of family history.
PGD requires biopsy (removal) if cells from each embryo for analysis. Just like couples with infertility problems, you will need to have IVF cycle to create a number of embryos. Although many IVF centres offer PGD services, it is best to use a centre that has experience with PGD in order to achieve the best results. This is because embryo biopsy is highly skilled procedure. Recent studies show that biopsy skill has a big impact on embryo survival.

]]> By: carrie http://www.bloggernews.net/118795#comment-800338 carrie Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:12:44 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118795#comment-800338 My brother is a 47 year old with Down Syndrome. Our mother died when he was three years old and our father died when he was four. He lived with one of my sisters for years and then decided ten years ago to come live with me. I have never been one to judge whether someone should have an abortion or not. That is between them and their God. My mother chose not to have and abortion. That was her choice. My brother has always lived with one of his siblings. We were very fortunate that he didn't need to be placed anywhere else. He had always been an upstanding member of his community with lots of friends. At the age of 45, he developed Alzheimer's disease. All his life, he struggled learning so many things that we all take for granted. When this disease took over his life, he lost so much, especially his ability to take care of his physical needs. I did my best to take care of him for one year but he started to require 24 hour care which I couldn't do. One year ago I had to make the most difficult decision of my life. I had to place my brother in a nursing home. To say he didn't want to go would be an understatement. I will never forget the night I had to leave him there. I will always remember seeing him crying and begging me to take him hom. I would never want to see anyone go through that. That was the worst day of my life. Each time I go to visit him he asks when I am going to take him home and I relive that night all over again. In the past, I have always applauded couples who have agreed to keep a child with a disability. But, now I ask you, if something was to happen to either you or your partner, who would be the one to have to take care of this child? These children live to be 50 or 60 years old. Just think of how old you will be then. Doctor's are now finding that women who have a child with DS also develop this disease. So, a husband is left to look after both his wife and child, both of them with Alzheimer's. A lot of couples have more than one child and expect that the healthy child would, of course, assume the responsibility. They think that since the sibling loves this child as much as they do that they would be more than happy to assume the responsibility. That is the worst thing you could possibly do to another child. Of course, your healthy child, at a younger age would agree to take on the responsibility. What child wouldn't. My siblings and I knew from the day our brother was born that he was special and required special needs and we were taught to assume some of the responsibility. When my brother was born, there were no computers to check out what happens to a child with DS as they get older. I am aware that not all DS children develop Alzheimer's but of all the DS children I have met over the years, most of them have developed the disease. I wish I was as financially well off as the Kennedy's so I could hire a private nurse to take care of my brother but unfortunately, I am not.I read how Sara Palin was criticized for her choice in keeping her child. Anytime I saw Sara Palen and her family on TV, she wasn't the one holding the child, it was one of the child's siblings. My heart always went out to any of my friends who had to place their parent(s) in a nursing home. I could see the pain they were going through. But, to have to put a sibling, who is both emotionally and physically still a child, in a nursing home is the most painful thing I have ever been through. There are times I wished that he had been placed in an institution in the first place so he would have gotten used to it. Instead, we got to have him with us for so many years. With this rotten disease, we got to watch him lose all the things he struggled so hard to learn. But, the most important thing he lost was his home. So, I ask you, if you decide to have a child with a disability, if something was to happen to you, who will assume the responsibility for that child? Please don't assume that your other children will, that is so unfair. Please don't expect them to do so. You are the ones maing the choice to that that child, not your other children. Your other children have a right to their lives as well. You may expect that they should be grateful that they were not born with a disability and should be happen to help with the disabled child. You other children did not decide to have this child, you did. It is your responsbility to take care of him/her, not your other children's. I am not advocating abortion. I was raised in a Catholic home. My mother did not use birth control and had 13 children. Consequently, she lost her life at the very young age of 42. I am the 6th oldest and do know, first hand, what it is like to take on the responsibility of siblings. I took that responsibility very seriously, as I was taught to do. So, I do not agree with anyone, whether you have a healthy child or a child with a disability, assuming that other siblings will take care of YOUR children. My mother died. She didn't have any choice in the matter. I think it is so important for you couples who decide to have a child with a disability to make sure that you and you alone know that you are responsible for this child and this child's future, nobody else is. My brother is a 47 year old with Down Syndrome. Our mother died when he was three years old and our father died when he was four. He lived with one of my sisters for years and then decided ten years ago to come live with me.

I have never been one to judge whether someone should have an abortion or not. That is between them and their God. My mother chose not to have and abortion. That was her choice. My brother has always lived with one of his siblings. We were very fortunate that he didn’t need to be placed anywhere else. He had always been an upstanding member of his community with lots of friends.

At the age of 45, he developed Alzheimer’s disease. All his life, he struggled learning so many things that we all take for granted. When this disease took over his life, he lost so much, especially his ability to take care of his physical needs. I did my best to take care of him for one year but he started to require 24 hour care which I couldn’t do.

One year ago I had to make the most difficult decision of my life. I had to place my brother in a nursing home. To say he didn’t want to go would be an understatement. I will never forget the night I had to leave him there. I will always remember seeing him crying and begging me to take him hom. I would never want to see anyone go through that. That was the worst day of my life. Each time I go to visit him he asks when I am going to take him home and I relive that night all over again.

In the past, I have always applauded couples who have agreed to keep a child with a disability. But, now I ask you, if something was to happen to either you or your partner, who would be the one to have to take care of this child? These children live to be 50 or 60 years old. Just think of how old you will be then. Doctor’s are now finding that women who have a child with DS also develop this disease. So, a husband is left to look after both his wife and child, both of them with Alzheimer’s.

A lot of couples have more than one child and expect that the healthy child would, of course, assume the responsibility. They think that since the sibling loves this child as much as they do that they would be more than happy to assume the responsibility. That is the worst thing you could possibly do to another child.

Of course, your healthy child, at a younger age would agree to take on the responsibility. What child wouldn’t. My siblings and I knew from the day our brother was born that he was special and required special needs and we were taught to assume some of the responsibility.

When my brother was born, there were no computers to check out what happens to a child with DS as they get older. I am aware that not all DS children develop Alzheimer’s but of all the DS children I have met over the years, most of them have developed the disease.

I wish I was as financially well off as the Kennedy’s so I could hire a private nurse to take care of my brother but unfortunately, I am not.I read how Sara Palin was criticized for her choice in keeping her child. Anytime I saw Sara Palen and her family on TV, she wasn’t the one holding the child, it was one of the child’s siblings.

My heart always went out to any of my friends who had to place their parent(s) in a nursing home. I could see the pain they were going through. But, to have to put a sibling, who is both emotionally and physically still a child, in a nursing home is the most painful thing I have ever been through. There are times I wished that he had been placed in an institution in the first place so he would have gotten used to it. Instead, we got to have him with us for so many years. With this rotten disease, we got to watch him lose all the things he struggled so hard to learn. But, the most important thing he lost was his home.

So, I ask you, if you decide to have a child with a disability, if something was to happen to you, who will assume the responsibility for that child? Please don’t assume that your other children will, that is so unfair. Please don’t expect them to do so. You are the ones maing the choice to that that child, not your other children. Your other children have a right to their lives as well. You may expect that they should be grateful that they were not born with a disability and should be happen to help with the disabled child. You other children did not decide to have this child, you did. It is your responsbility to take care of him/her, not your other children’s.

I am not advocating abortion. I was raised in a Catholic home. My mother did not use birth control and had 13 children. Consequently, she lost her life at the very young age of 42. I am the 6th oldest and do know, first hand, what it is like to take on the responsibility of siblings. I took that responsibility very seriously, as I was taught to do.

So, I do not agree with anyone, whether you have a healthy child or a child with a disability, assuming that other siblings will take care of YOUR children. My mother died. She didn’t have any choice in the matter. I think it is so important for you couples who decide to have a child with a disability to make sure that you and you alone know that you are responsible for this child and this child’s future, nobody else is.

]]> By: Rich http://www.bloggernews.net/118795#comment-792994 Rich Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:54:05 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118795#comment-792994 How about people who choose not want to give birth to a downs syndrome child? How about people who choose not want to give birth to a downs syndrome child?

]]> By: Bonilogue http://www.bloggernews.net/118795#comment-791647 Bonilogue Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:42:11 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/118795#comment-791647 I don't know whether I would have had the patience to cope with the difficulties of raising a child with Down Syndrome, but I know fairly well several people who've had such children and each says the child was a blessing to them and the rest of their family. It seems that the changes in them that are necessary to raise that child is close to transcendent and reached into all aspects of their lives. Bless them. I don’t know whether I would have had the patience to cope with the difficulties of raising a child with Down Syndrome, but I know fairly well several people who’ve had such children and each says the child was a blessing to them and the rest of their family. It seems that the changes in them that are necessary to raise that child is close to transcendent and reached into all aspects of their lives. Bless them.

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