Rosie, You Make Me Better

We waited 11 years for Rosamund (Rosie!) and it was a bittersweet day to find out we had lost her twin brother, Thom, in pregnancy. We got Rosie’s diagnosis of Down syndrome a whole month after her birth, but it didn’t matter, as by then we were already so in love with our little girl.

Rosie lights up every room she enters – she has a fan club wherever we go! She loves meeting people, and is always so eager to give a hug or a high five. Even the toughest hearts have been reduced to melted chocolate after meeting our girl.

Through Rosie and the various people who are in her life to help, like her speech therapists and physios, a whole new world has opened up to us. One we didn’t know we would enjoy so much! We have made hundreds of new friends, learned so much about ‘Rosie’s extra chromie’ as her brother says…and we wouldn’t want to change a hair on her head. Rosie has literally made us a stronger family, more patient, more in tune with each other, and we celebrate her every milestone with absolute elation. Rosie was a gift to our family, born 26 years after her eldest brother, and we absolutely cherish her, she is everything to us.

-Carrie, Rosie’s Mom (United Kingdom)