Just acceptance: One year anniversary of the diagnosis

Today is an anniversary but not necessarily a good one.

Today is the one year anniversary that karyotype came back from the lab saying Bradyn has Down syndrome.

I can remember it like it was yesterday. I was back in the hospital with an infection from Bradyn's birth. Garret, Corbin, and Bradyn could not stay with me but had came for a visit and were just about to leave when the hospital pediatrician and two residents came in. They were the same ones we saw several times a day while Bradyn was in the hospital after birth. The pediatrician went over to Bradyn, picked him up and held him for a minute (he had been asleep in a bassinet). She then went to give him to me but since they were about to leave I asked if she could give him to Garret. "I know you have been waiting 2 weeks for the karyotype to return from the lab. It finally came back and does confirm our suspicions of him having Down syndrome." The world just slowed down way down. I looked at Garret holding Bradyn, then at Corbin playing with a toy. I remember her telling us that people with Down syndrome can have great lives. Then hearing Garret ask "What type of Down syndrome does he have? We had looked up some information about Down syndrome and it had said there are three types" (Standard Trisomy 21, Translocation, and Mosaicism). "He has Trisomy 21" Said the pediatrician. "What health issues will he have?" "Every child is different and can have different levels of health issues or non at all." We thanked the doctors. She let us know if we had any more questions to have a nurse get her and she would be happy to talk with us.
They left the room and I asked Garret to bring me Bradyn. There were no tears. Just acceptance. God had a plan and we were accepting it wholeheartedly. Garret and I talked about how it was going to be different, but we still had our little boy and he was still Bradyn. Our extra hanDSome Bray bear!

We are so blessed to have Bradyn just the way he is. He is the ray of sunshine in our family! Always smiling, unless those darn teeth are being mean again.

Developmentally he is doing awesome. He is now sitting, moving around the floor and getting into things, starting to get onto his hands and knees, and eating age level things. Also if beating up on your brother is a milestone he is doing that too lol.

  

Look how much both of them have grown.

Only can get one to sit still at at time :)

What a beautiful and amazing year it has been and so many more to come!