My Little Sweetheart

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Hi my name is Cassandra. My first born is a little boy...and when he

was born I thought he was the most beautiful angel...but hey we all

think that they our little babies that we carried for nine

months...and like alot of peoples fears we all just want healthy

children with all their limbs and fingers and toes...Well my little

Tristan has very distinctive eyes...and anywhere I went was it the

mall the grocery store...or local Wal Mart...complete strangers would

stop me and tell he " there is just something about his eyes " or " they

would ask if his father was oriental? " . Well I never thought anything

of it till he was around two and I asked his peditrician and she got

to looking at him and me and said " I am going to set up for him to

see a geneticist " . So we made the appt the doc looked at him took

some blood and then we went back for the follow up or whatever and

she said well he has blepharophimosis and it is his 43 chromosome and

handed me two pages that were copied out of an encyclopedia...and I

said okay is he slow is he gonna have learning disabilites...and she

said how well did you do in school...I said I did as good as I put

effort into it...she said then he'll be fine...so like any mother I

came home and searched the web and found interesting things that I

knew he was definateley diagnosed correctly. For instance his

testicles were slow in descending...and his right ear lobe was under

the outer corner of his eye...he also has a very distictive nose

almost like a beak or bird like like no other in my or his fathers

family..and after looking at pictures of other children with his

diagnoses...I noticed they had noses like his...and he tends to speak

thru his nose and is currently in speach classes and didnt really

even start talking until he was around three and a half. Well this is

the jist and I just wanted to share my experience and maybe see if

anyone else has the same things or their thoughts. His pics are

posted here in the albums... " Sweet Tristan " . Again thank you for you

r time and thank you for reading this...

Cassandra