My son’s Down’s syndrome does not define him

When told her baby’s diagnosis, Caroline White was devastated. Eight years on, her son has enriched her life beyond measureSix days after our first baby was born, it was confirmed that he had Down’s syndrome. The news was devastating: I assumed a lifetime of “difference” and exclusion, all my aspirations for my child seemingly in tatters. I had never known anyone with Down’s syndrome, so I threw myself into researching the condition. Everything I read listed po