Three weeks ago I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, my second child. For 3 hours we were elated. Then we were told that she had some facial abnormalities which would need to be looked at further. From the delivery suite we were taken back to the post natal ward and put in a private room, at which point alarm bells started ringing. Shortly after that, a crowd of doctors came into the room and told us that our daughter has Down's syndrome. At that point it felt as though the sky had fallen in. I am 33; we have one beautiful, bright, perfect son (aged 3), and it had never entered our heads (very arrogantly I now realise) that we might have a child who was anything other than perfect too. We had the nuchal translucency scan at 12 weeks and were given a 1 in 5600 risk. We had (wrongly) treated that result as a no risk result, and hadn't thought again about DS. I cried for two days, and I have never felt such pain and sadness in my life. I am ashamed to say that I knew nothing about Down's Syndrome other than that it was a disability. I am now slowly coming to terms with the situation. It is made easier by the fact that our daughter is a delightful, cute, darling baby, who I love just as much as my DS. We have also had tremendous support from the NHS (which, I am also ashamed to say, I have never had a good word for in the past)I would love to hear from anyone else who this happened to - I have read lots from people who knew that their baby had Down's before he/she was born, or where people knew they were at high risk. We were low risk and had no idea at all and I think coping with the shock has probably been the hardest thing. Also, whilst people keep saying very positive things about Down's I feel so so sad and I don't know how to cope with that. Please help.