I call her my “La niña de mis ojos.” I remember when she was having some medical complications and the doctors prescribed a medication I was unfamiliar with. Normally I do not like to read, but for my Bria I will do anything! So I read, and read and read and researched and found there were other more natural ways to help her starting with her diet.

I decided not to have a baby shower. This baby growing in my belly would be my 8th child, and upon learning in utero that she had Down syndrome and a heart defect I decided not to do a baby shower. It wasn’t that I did not want her. I did.