A Parent’s Story
A Caregiver’s Perspective
Michelle Aventajado
Best Buddies Staff Member
No one wants to feel alone. Even if I understood what Down syndrome was because I was a teacher and taught in inclusive classrooms, when the neonatologist gave me a birth diagnosis of Trisomy 21, I felt the full gamut of emotions that comes along with the understanding that my parenthood journey was forever going to be different. My husband Nino and I looked to each other for comfort, but…