My affinity and love for fish balls started when I was in college/university 25 years ago. My days in UP (University of the Philippines) would not be complete if I didn’t get to spend Php10 in Ate’s food stall beside the building of College of Mass Communications where we will talk about how hard Math 1 was and how cute…
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Real talk – Parenting can be a struggle. Multiply that over a hundred times when you are a parent toa child with special needs. You either accept and embrace it with open arms or you crumble into amillion pieces. I’ve long accepted the role of being a parent to a child with Down syndrome, always looking at thepositive side of…
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I started reading to Marian when I was 30 weeks pregnant. Even though I am not a voracious reader, I will try to read every night and say it out loud before going to bed. Studies show babies can hear their mother’s voices and I wanted to let her know that learning can start even before she was born ????…
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I must confess, we didn’t start Early Intervention until after a year Marian was born.  We were afraid to take that first step and acknowledge that my child needed help. I did not even openly discuss my child to colleagues at work. I didn’t want to be vulnerable in front of them.  Until one day, a colleague whose child also…
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About 95% of the time, Down syndrome (DS) is caused by trisomy 21 — the person has three (3) copies of chromosome 21, instead of the usual two copies, in all cells.  It is a genetic chromosomal condition where a person is born with 47 chromosomes instead of the usual 46.  This is caused by the abnormal cell division during the development of the sperm cell or…
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