re: Did you screen for Down syndrome?

I don't disagree with being prepared and I have no idea what preparing for Down Syndrome looks like, so I can't really say how I would have done things differently if I had known.

However, I think as long as you're in the hospital, you probably have the doctors you need on standby to get you through whatever happens; the hospital wouldn't be very good if they didn't. Our youngest was born with TGA that required near immediate heart surgery for survival. We had the whole thing planned out in advance, but to complicate things further, he decided to show up 2 months early, so all of our preparation meant nothing. We weren't even in the right city, much less the right hospital, but we figured it out.

Not saying people should or should not screen for stuff. To each their own, but I just didn't see any value in knowing that particular piece of data ahead of time.