'We couldn't imagine adopting another child without Down syndrome.'
, the only thing we checked off was that we wanted a child with Down syndrome. We didn't want a typical child. We didn't need a blonde-haired, blue-eyed child."Holly had always known she wanted to parent a child with Down syndrome. Her desire stemmed from a friendship she fostered with her neighbor, Maggie, at a young age.
But everything changed when Alex went to firefighter school in Texas in 2013. One day, her instructor pulled her aside to tell her that one of his lieutenants had a little girl with Down syndrome who was also nonverbal and diabetic. Due to her autism diagnosis, she went into diabetic shock, but wasn't able to communicate it to her parents.
Once Holly and Alex got the ball rolling with the adoption process, they were surprised at how quickly everything moved. Given the fact that they preferred to take in a child with special needs, they got Jackson sooner than they thought. But adopting a child with Down syndrome is understandably a tall order. Holly and Alex knew that their lives were going to change significantly once they brought a little one with special needs into their lives.
Completely in love with their oldest son, Alex and Holly began considering adopting another child just a year after welcoming Jackson into their home."For our second adoption, we had said we were open to adopting a child with Down syndrome or a neurotypical child," Holly explained."But once we got further along in the process, we realized we couldn't imagine not adopting another child without Down syndrome. We got the call for Niko a month later and he had Down syndrome.
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