Extra Chromosome

The extra chromosome affects each child in a different way. A good number of children born with Down syndrome have minor heart defects, which are usually surgically corrected at about the 6 month age. Sometimes it will cause significant health issues, like respiratory problems, major heart defects, and gastrointestinal perforations. That is the outside 1%. Every child with Down syndrome has a different learning capacity, a different personality, a different soul, just as every typical child has!