TY - BOOK AU - Adams,Rachel TI - Raising Henry: a memoir of motherhood, disability, and discovery SN - 9780300180008 U1 - 618.9 ADA PY - 2013/// PB - Yale University Press KW - Adams KW - Down syndrome KW - Patients KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Developmentally disabled children KW - Parents of developmentally disabled children KW - Mothers and sons N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - Rachel Adams's life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment, and a position as a tenured professor at Colombia University. Everything changed with the birth of her second child, Henry. Just minutes after he was born, doctors told her that Henry had Down syndrome, and she knew that her life would never be the same. In this honest, self-critical, and surprisingly funny book, Adams chronicles the first three years of Henry's life and her own transformat ER -