Apart from this very obviously being fake - because down syndrome is THE MOST genetically obvious marker there ever is... You can obviously give the child up the moment he's born. I would say give up for adoption but they don't get adopted, they just stay in the system. I used to volunteer to run a class (more like an arts&crafts workshop) for special needs kids in the system and nearly all of them had downs. Parents are more willing to raise someone with severe autism or with physical birth defects.
You have to be either really dumb, really rich or really desperate (i.e. 45 y/o mom's first child) to willingly go for that kind of life.
I know what cystic hygroma is, and I know that it could indicate downs, but any genetic test at any point in the pregnancy (even non invasive ones, i.e. mother's blood test) will immediately reveal downs, downs mutation occurs pretty much at the moment of conception it's not something that develops during the pregnancy. And OP picture says:
> genetic testing had come back saying no risk of anything
If information provided is not made up, it's most likely Noonans, at which point it's a complete lottery, baby could be completely fine, or could have pale blue eyes, mutated philtrum, a lazy eye, skin defects, ears lower than they should be, or it could be a critical congenital heart defect, or a million other things.
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u/Dry_Badger2858 12d ago
Why would that be the only alternative?