January 9, 1999 Finally, the day was here. The day that was to bring my last chance at a baby girl. Having 3 boys from a previous marriage, I was determined to have a girl. At 5:25 pm we had a baby boy, Tyler David Traynor.  He weighed in at 5 lbs 13 oz. He was born with the cord wrapped around his neck, but that didn't seem to cause any trouble. Later in the evening the pediatrician stopped by to visit Tyler. He took us to the nursery and mentioned they were looking at his hands and feet, and something else they look for was Down Syndrome, but he seemed to think he should have a single crease across the palm of his hand. The subject of Down Syndrome was quickly dropped, and he focused on the fact that our boy was in need of something to eat. He was not getting enough before he was born due to my high blood pressure.  It wasn't until I was in the nursery trying to feed Tyler when his little head turned to the side and I saw the Down Syndrome.  I paniced and asked the nurse if she could see it as well.  She didn't seem to think he looked like a baby with DS.  We went home from the hospital on the 3rd day. The pediatrican made an appointment to see him the following day.  At the appointment he looked Tyler over and said to me "I don't feel like I would be doing my job if I didn't test him for Down Syndrome".  I appreciated his honesty, but he broke my heart. A week later we went back to find out what the results were. His suspicion was confirmed.  DOWN SYNDROME! The Dr. had to explain what DS was, as we were totally ignorant to the whole thing. To add to the confusion, he told us that Tyler had translocation DS.  Our world was shattered!  We didn't order Down Syndrome! We were referred to a genetic counselor to explain this whole chromosome thing.  Tyler has an extra 21st chromosome like trisomy 21, but his extra 21 is stuck to the 14 chromosome.  So...what does this mean?  Well, we are still trying to figure out what the big deal about DS is. Tyler is just like any other child.  He has got to be the busiest little boy I know.  So many people with DS children told us how "blessed" we were.  All I could think was that they were just trying to ease the blow.  We educated ourself in a hurry, and decided that feeling sorry for him or ourselves was not going to help him.  It has been forward from that day on.  He gets treated like any other child, and low and behold, he is just like any other child.  We are very fortunate to have a healthy child who happens to have DS,  and his development has amazed us as well.   This child has taught our family about unconditional love, acceptance amongst many other things.  He is so NOT what we expected!  He is much, much more! By the way....I wouldn't change my Ty Ty for a baby girl in a million years!