Parents of children with Down’s Syndrome train midwives

Fellow trustee Claire Oakley gave birth to her son Noah at Dorchester four years ago and had him with her when staff gave her and her husband his diagnosis.

“The neonatal nurse specialist picked up Noah, gave him to us and just said ‘he’s still your baby boy, he’s the same child as he was five minutes ago,'” Ms Oakley said.

“You really look to the health professionals when you get a diagnosis to see how worried you should be.

“Because everyone was so calm, we were so calm and it really did set us up for such a lovely journey to the start of Noah’s life.”