The My Son Down website is relaunched with new sections and multimedia materials to help parents accept and prepare the arrival of a child with Down syndrome.
The testimony of Manual and Marta welcomes everyone who visits the web, and does so through the documentary 'Sofia's gift: the story of how our daughter taught us to start over '.
This is a reduced version of 'Sofia's gift', which you can see in full here
Probably some of the parents (or future parents) who reach My son Down, they do it with many doubts and the need for someone to help them adapt to that situation.
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According to data from DOWN SPAIN, approximately 9 out of 10 families decide to terminate the pregnancy when the diagnosis reveals that the child has Down syndrome. Many times the decision is motivated by fear and ignorance of the abilities of these children, for not having had contact with people with this disability or not having gone to associations that could have supported and advised them at this decisive moment in their lives.
In My son Down there a section dedicated to the 'new parents', another with information about the stages of childhood of a person with Down Syndrome, a section to know the associations, and finally some recommendations to professionals.
