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  “When you are told your child has Down syndrome, you make a choice. You decide you will do all you can to help your child reach his or her potential”   When you are handed [...]

SCHOOL AND COVID-19 I remember when the news of Covid-19 first hit. Everyone was quite shocked and talking about it, but nobody could have ever predicted the year that was 2020. Everything [...]

  “My husband Amar and I had long dreamed of being parents”.                                                                                        […]

Launching the first of its kind and much anticipated, an all- encompassing magazine about Down syndrome, nationwide!   Charity Making Chromosomes Count (MCC) is extremely proud to launch the [...]

World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), 21st March, is an annual global awareness day, officially observed by the United Nations since 2012. On the 21st March 2021, people all over the world will choose [...]

The Looking Up Book features pictorial stories following the early years of children with Downs Syndrome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rht9jl_IVwo As parents of babies with Downs syndrome, we [...]

Anyone who has gone through a pregnancy knows that those nine months can be full of surprises. My third pregnancy was one for the books. Apart from the usual tiredness and nausea in the [...]

Stacey Byrne, Trustee/Co-Founder of ‘Making Chromosomes Count’ shares her Pregnancy & Birth Story. it can be a scary place at first, but for us it became the place where we came [...]

“BRINGING DARCY INTO THE WORLD” Julie Fisher from Victoria, Australia, recalls the moment her son, Darcy, came in to the world to the sound of applause and cheering. Our family was a [...]

Here’s a challenge for you: Do you think you could walk 300 miles, from Land’s End to Peckham? Quite a difficult feat. But some fifteen children with Down syndrome managed to cover that journey [...]